A good read: Financial services professionals re-launch book club

Re-launched this month

Sophie King
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Several professionals from the financial services community have re-launched a financial planning book club.

The club was initially launched by Handford Aitkenhead & Walker Chartered financial planner Alasdair Walker and NextGen director Adam Own in 2019, but the batton was passed to Plan Works director and Chartered paraplanner Sian Davies Cole and Money Matters business manager Caroline Singleton in September last year. They have both been planning for the re-launch since October last year. The pair plan on having a mix of finance-related books and other genres and have set the goal of reading four books this year, over the course of two months for each book. The books for 2020 include ...

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