LEBC opens Kent branch after poaching Origen advisers

Carmen Reichman
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National IFA LEBC has opened an office in Kent staffed by three advisers who moved to the firm from rival Origen Financial Services.

LEBC opened its Maidstone office in the beginning of June after poaching Origen financial planners Natasha Etherton, Simon O'Connell and Sue Eadon-Butler. The trio has worked together for the past ten years. Together they have built a "broad range of specialisms including pension planning, savings and investments, inheritance tax, long-term care, trusts, protection and financial education to employees," said LEBC chief operating officer Jeremy Macleod, who called the recruitment "a real coup". Read also: Origen: Multi-million pound claims exited advisers' fault LEBC said it ...

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