Financial planner launches Facebook group for women in financial services

Wood (pictured) said the group was intended to be an informal page, where women in financial services can support each other and offer advice. She said: "Too often we're encouraged to compete as women, rather than support each other, so it was very much designed to be somewhere safe." The Chartered financial planner said while there were other groups for financial services professionals, she had not seen one exclusively for women.  "I set it up to have a safe space for women to come in and ask other women for advice or just to have somewhere where they can rant if they're going thr...