'A couple waltzed around my office': Julie Lord on 34 years advising clients

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Hannah Godfrey
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On this week’s episode of The Pro Adviser Podcast, in association with Architas, Hannah Godfrey talks to advice veteran Julie Lord, who is stepping away from advising clients after 34 years in the profession.

Lord, who is one of the founders of Wales-based Magenta Financial Planning, earlier this month hung up her regulatory permissions and stopped advising clients. She will continue to work at Magenta a couple of times a month, doing things like social media and writing for the firm. The advice veteran is a former president of the Institute of Financial Planning before it merged with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. She has had a colourful and well-decorated career, boasting certified and Chartered status, as well as being a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. In t...

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