Ex-IFP chief to advise PFS financial planning panel

12 financial planners on the panel

Victoria McKeever
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Former Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) chief executive Steve Gazzard has been appointed as a consultant to the new PFS financial planning panel.

Gazzard will be joined by marketing consultant Carrie Bendall to advise the panel of 12 financial planners, which includes Julie Lord and IFP paraplanner of the year 2013 Gemma Siddle. New Personal Finance Society (PFS) president Sharon Sutton (pictured) chaired the recent inaugural Financial Planning Practitioner Panel meeting. Sutton had taken over from Nick Turner earlier this week. The PFS said the panel was set up to help guide the professional body as it looks to broaden its CPD programme to incorporate good practice in financial planning. It is also intended to provide finan...

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