Next Generation Advisers: Newbridge Financial Planning's Alex Bakovljev

Newbridge Financial Planning planner Alex Bakovljev has a backstory of multiple career streams. He has spent time commissioning offshore wind farms, served in the army as an engineering officer and then tried to start his own events business in Edinburgh. Now, his sole focus is financial advice. "When I turned 30, I finally understood what I liked doing, what I was good at, and I was searching for that third circle in the Venn diagram — the thing that would actually pay me," he told Professional Adviser. Bakovljev explained that a trooper in his army unit, Tom Ham, who now runs Cal...