PFS appoints Adam Owen as president

Aims to support and empower profession's future leaders

Sophie King
clock • 1 min read

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has appointed NextGen Planners curriculum and training director Adam Owen as its next president.

He will take over from Chartered insurance practitioner John White for the 2019/20 term. Owen has been in the sector since the mid-1990s. He was a founding director of support provider EQI Consultancy and has also held several compliance and supervision positions.  More recently, he has focused on developing career pathways throughout the profession, becoming a CII and PFS accredited trainer.  Owen said over the next decade, the sector will see "many stalwarts" of the profession take a step back as the march to retirement continues. He said: "As a profession, we now need to supp...

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