Could this online firm become the 'Netflix' of the adviser world?

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Hannah Godfrey
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On this week’s episode of The Pro Adviser Podcast, Hannah Godfrey talks to Richard Boughton, business developer at Fintuity, an online advice firm that hopes to revolutionise the advice sector.

Fintuity was born just a few years ago in 2017 and recently hit the headlines when it began offering free advice to frontline emergency working during the Covid-19 pandemic. Boughton (pictured) has only recently started at the firm - and strangely because of the coronavirus he is yet to meet his colleagues - but he believes Fintuity's combination of video face-to-face advice along with robo technology could revolutionise the world of advice, and help to fill the advice gap. Fintuity has big dreams, and alongside its advice work it later plans to work directly with traditional face-to-...

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