Devon-based Chartered planner celebrates 25 years at Philip J Milton & Co

Pickard, 48, who joined the North Devon practice in 1996, started work for PJM & Co as a newly qualified adviser and was appointed a director just a year later. Since then, he has gained numerous additional qualifications and, by age 37, achieved Chartered Financial Planner status. Born and bred in North Devon, Pickard went to Park Community School and then on to study at North Devon College. He started in financial services as an insurance salesman but had aspirations to be an adviser.   Looking back on his quarter of a century in planning, he recalled an amusing hiccough when he ...