Adviser face-to-face networking venture launched

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A networking service enabling advisers to meet and share ideas with their market peers face-to-face at organised monthly events has been launched.

The Institute of Finance Professionals (IFP) will help bring together professionals from the worlds of investment and retail banking, mortgage lending, insurance and other financial services related firms, its founder Mark Harrison says. He adds unlike other networking propositions which are mainly online, the IFP facilitates regular face-to-face network events. The IFP website will also feature interviews and articles by senior financial executives, discussing topics including leadership, motivation and business diversification. "We have been genuinely overwhelmed by the interest sho...

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