Nicholls replaces Steeples as head of PFS

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Carole Nicholls has taken over from Brian Steeples as the new president of the Personal Finance Society.

Previously vice president of the PFS, Nicholls stepped into the role as head of the organisation on 1 November following the Society’s annual general meeting and ahead of the PFS conference held last week. Nicholls, who runs her own directly authorised IFA business in Bristol, says increasing the levels of professionalism is a key aspect of her plans for her year in office, adding her theme will be “actions speak louder than words”. A member of the PFS Board since January 2005, Nicholls says the Society had made a “fantastic start” under Steeples, but said now she wants to see “hard e...

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