Why writing to MPs won't fix the FSCS levy - but writing to the Treasury Select Committee just might

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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 Victoria Hicks, founder of adviser action group Financial Planners United, about why she believes her group will be successful tackling the industry’s biggest problems where others have failed.

Hicks is a Chartered financial planner by profession, but sold her Yorkshire advice firm in 2018 following repeated Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and professional indemnity insurance rises. She now helps adviser firms grow through a mixture of consulting and assisting with mergers and acquisitions.  Though Financial Planners United was only formed in August, it already boasts around 500 members.  First on the group's agenda is tackling FSCS levy rises. Hicks and her co-founders have encouraged members to write to MPs, but more importantly members of the Treasury Select...

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