Nine IFAs pick up coveted Gold Standard Awards

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Nine independent financial advisers were among the 35 businesses to pick up a Gold Standard Award 2013.

Almary Green Investments, Carbon Financial Partners, Central Financial Planning,  Investment Quorum, Mazars Financial Planning, McCarthy Taylor, Mearns & Co, Torquil Clark Holdings and Wingate Financial Planning all picked up gongs - some not for the first time - at a ceremony hosted by Jonathan Evans MP in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The awards, now in their 11th year, are designed to identify those financial services business which not only possess robust structures and procedures, but which go above and beyond standard business practices to promote consumer trust in the sector....

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