Advisers should fear being 'kicked out' of Sofa - Bullivant

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Bob Bullivant, managing director of Society of Financial Advisers, talks to Julie Henderson to explain the professional body's vision for tackling consumer confidence in financial advice.

Consumer confidence and future financial advice standards are dependent on the creation of an industry much like the legal and accounting profession in which the individual has something to lose if ‘kicked out’ of a professional body, suggests the Society of Financial Advisers. Having served the IFA sector for 10 years now, Sofa is realigning its core aims as an educational and professional body to place greater emphasis on the standards its members should be required to meet, in a bid to improve the standing of IFAs in financial services and in the eyes of consumers. Bob Bullivant, m...

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