IFAs need to 'up their game' with wrap launch

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Advisory firm Beckett Financial Services is launching its wrap wealth management service next month in an attempt to "up its game" and meet clients' "exacting" financial planning requirements.

The firm says the ‘Beckett Wrap’, which will be made available from 1 May, will be a core part of the company’s client offering, following a “clearly re-defined strategy” which has involved “significant investment in new systems” and the appointment of key executives within the business. Chris Barnes, managing director of Beckett, says the decision to launch its own wrap - using Standard Life’s proposition - is a “clear message to our clients that we are determined to stay at the forefront of solution driven financial services”. He points out investors are increasingly more exacting in...

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