Ex-Origen director joins Skandia UK

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Former IFA firm chief Michelle Cracknell has joined Skandia UK as strategy director.

Cracknell, a former board director at Origen, will be tasked with ensuring the company is “well positioned to benefit from regulatory and market driven developments”. She will report directly to Skandia UK’s CEO Nick Poyntz-Wright, who says Cracknell is “ideally suited” to the role. “Our aim is to be the leader in open architecture and investment solutions across all the markets in which we operate,” he adds. “To do this we need to ensure our strategy is in line with market forces, including the impact of new and proposed regulations such as the retail distribution review. “We’re in a d...

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