IFP: Single professional body is vision for future

Expressing his thoughts at the 2004 IFP conference in Hinckley, Leicestershire, David Norton, senior partner at Norton Partners presented his vision of the financial planning and advice profession in 2014, and went as far to suggest completion of the merger between the LIA and Sofa might eventually lead directors and members to drop its links with the CII because it was thought the links to the CII hamper its image of independence from the insurance industry. In his vision - which Norton stressed was his own and not that of the IFP - which he suggests looks back from 2014 to 2005 and 200...