IFP Conference: 'Profession' requires a new business model

That’s the message emanating from today’s Institute of Financial Planning’s Forum For Success conference, being held in Hinckley, Leicestershire, as speakers say planners have to look beyond the production of financial reports and product selection to deliver client expectations for their own lives. Barry Horner, practitioner at Paradigm Norton Financial Planning, suggests the reputation of the sector is unlikely to eventually carry the same public image as the accountancy and legal professions unless business models change and intermediaries present a more ethical focus to the advice de...