Ex-Honister IFA: some providers stopped taking my calls

Andrew Elson, now a financial planner at Beaufort Asset Management, said the difference in how providers treated him shocked him. "There were some providers who bent over backwards to help - and some who wouldn't even speak to us. Mortgage providers were among the worst." Elson praised Aviva and Skandia as "fantastic" during the troubled times with Honister, where he was an appointed representative. But he said Axa Elevate was among the worst. "Elevate wouldn't take our calls. It just told us to speak to the administrator. Scottish Widows took a while to decide whether it would re-...