NMBA looks to recruit A-Level students into advice

The non-for-profit organisation, which is funded by product providers and fund management houses, already has in place a link up with the Financial Skills Partnership (FSP) to offer apprenticeships for up to 150 graduates among its 13,500 strong membership of mainly advisers. Now it is looking to target non-graduates in what it hopes will be a pipeline of young people entering the sector. A pre-requisite for firms taking on a graduate or non-graduate is that they develop them as part of the business, often first as a paraplanner and then at adviser level. "The appetite among advise...