David Severn to be new AIFA director general

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David Severn, current head of retail investment projects at the FSA, has just been announced as the Association of IFAs' next director general.

Severn will take up his new role on February 1st, 2005, while Fay Goddard – who has worked alongside outgoing director general Paul Smee since the AIFA’s inception in 1999 - will continue as acting director general in the interim. In line with his arrival, the AIFA Executive will be re-structured to extend Goddard’s role as director of policy for both the AIFA and the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries, to include mortgage advice too. Chris Cummings, currently director of the AMI, will also be given a new role and title as deputy director general of the AIFA as well as retaining h...

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