Succession to utilise Shipway's 'global knowledge'

Scott Sinclair
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Ian Shipway will bring to newly-launched business transition consultants Succession Advisory Services knowledge of "global best practice", director Tim Parsons says.

Shipway, until this week head of strategic development at Bluefin Advisory Services (formerly Thinc), has joined the firm set up by ex-colleague Simon Chamberlain as financial planning director. Business transition director Tim Parsons says Shipway's three years representing the UK on the International CFP Council means those firms that sign with Succession will benefit from his familiarity with the best-run IFAs from around the world. "He [Shipway] brings with him global best practice in the structure and running of leading-edge adviser firms," Parsons says. "There are a number of t...

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