Pair of Manchester advisers relaunch Womens IFA Group

Claire Manterfield and Tamsin Caine, managing director and adviser respectively at Cheshire-based Brookfield Financial Planning, invited 25 advisers and paraplanners to the first meeting of the Womens IFA Group (WIG) earlier this year and have a second event lined up this month. The group, established by Fiona Price more than a decade ago and which at one time boasted some 700 members across the country before interest waned, plans to meet quarterly. Manterfield said she hoped WIG’s activities would inspire more female IFAs to set up their own branches. “Ideally, we would love to m...