Next Generation Advisers: Meet Handelsbanken Wealth's Michael Dodds

‘The people I've looked up to have never been driven by commission or product sales’

Isabel Baxter
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In the Next Generation Advisers interview series, news editor Isabel Baxter introduces the next generation of advisers and highlights how they are planning to make their mark. Today’s featured adviser is Handelsbanken Wealth & Asset Management's Michael Dodds…

Today, Dodds is a financial adviser, but he did not originally set out to become one. After completing a business management degree, including a period studying abroad in Miami, he returned to Newcastle University to study for a master's degree in international business. It was there that a professor first introduced him to financial services as a potential career. From fintech sales to financial advice Keen to gain experience, he joined a fintech firm in a sales role before discovering financial advice almost by accident. "A colleague in his late 50s was retraining as a financial a...

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