Award-winning IFA launches Worcester advice firm

Woman of the year – investment advice

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Midlands IFA Hannah Edwards, who won 'Woman of the Year - Investment advice' at PA's 2019 Women in Financial Advice Awards, has set up her own firm – Eva Capital Asset Management.

Former director of financial planning at BRI Wealth Management, Edwards achieved her long-held ambition of establishing her own firm, naming it after her late grandmother. "I have always been inspired by my late Grandmother, Eva. She was a war widow and an incredibly independent woman. Eva was the first woman on her street to wear trousers and was the first person to teach me the value of saving and planning for my future." As well as PA's accolade, Edwards was crowned UK Investment Adviser of the Year and Midlands IFA of the Year in 2019, as well as St Richards Hospice Worcestershire...

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