Adviser prepares home-cooked meals for client ill with coronavirus and other good news stories of the week…

Easing burden

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As advisers are continuing to overcome the challenges associated with lockdown, PA has compiled some of the good news stories of the past fortnight.

Sending home-cooked meals to sick client Chartered IFA Cleona Lira (pictured) of London's Conscious Money went above and beyond when she heard that one of her clients was suffering from Covid-19. The Greenwich-based adviser had contacted one of her clients about conducting an annual review when she found out the client had taken ill. "Her husband told me ‘she's in bed, she's quite poorly' and they have a child, so I sent some Indian food in an Uber, I made a chicken, lamb and vegetarian curry," Lira explained. "I would do it for any neighbour - it wasn't just because they were my...

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