Fixing the 'broken' pathways for new advisers

Hayley Rabbets and Tom Ham launch Evergreen

Isabel Baxter
clock • 6 min read

Recently launched Evergreen has been built to work with newer advisers beyond just providing early-stage support.

Hayley Rabbets has joined forces with Calton CEO Tom Ham to create Evergreen, a proposition has been built to support new planners and advisers through qualification to CAS status and help them secure either employed or self-employed roles. Rabbets, who has spent significant time working with new and transitioning advisers in her previous role as head of The Verve Foundation, said the current offerings for newer advisers usually start strong but quickly lose coherence. "In my previous role, I started to feel frustrated - not just from bringing in lots of people, but from hearing the s...

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