IFA gives out free financial planning tips and other good news from the week

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The UK is tentatively coming out of lockdown and with many of us still cooped up in our houses, positive news from the financial advice community is helping us get through. Here, PA compiles some of the best good news stories of the week...

IFA dishes out free tips through July  "If you could ask a financial adviser anything, what would it be?" Chartered IFA and founder of Work to Live Financial Planning Ian Richards asked his Twitter followers on Wednesday (1 July) as part of the first instalment of his video series. Richards is recording videos each weekday throughout July from his Warrington home in a bid to help lift the lid on what advisers actually do. "It's having a peek under the bonnet - [showing] how does it all work," he explained. "There's a perception that we're all in it for the commission or why do they ...

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