Advice business launched with a focus on entrepreneurship

Former Succession Wealth director Graham Nicoll unveils NCL Wealth Partners

Isabel Baxter
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After nearly two decades in wealth management, Graham Nicoll has come full circle - returning to entrepreneurship by building an advice firm with a renewed focus on clients, purpose, and independence.

Having entered financial services in 2007, Nicoll's career has spanned senior advisory and leadership roles, most notably within Barclays' private banking division and later at Succession Wealth. But his professional story did not begin in finance. "I actually started my career in fitness, not in finance," he explained. "I was doing personal training and set up a small business where we used to go into companies, build gyms, and run them." That business, Grazies, was eventually sold in 2002, setting off a gradual and somewhat unexpected transition into financial services for Nicoll. ...

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