In this series, Professional Adviser speaks with graduates of The Verve Foundation’s Adviser Incubator education programme. Today, it’s IFA Cathy Brennan speaking with Isabel Baxter…
What was your career history before you took part in the incubator programme? Cathy Brennan joined the financial services sector in 1997 after studying banking and finance at Ulster University. Her first role was working as a customer adviser in Alliance and Leicester. "I was making referrals to them [savings and protection advisers] for TESSAs and other products that used to be in the place in the 90s and it was from that I got an opportunity to go and work for a local IFA," Brennan explains. "It was very much client facing getting leads from a local estate agent and meeting peo...
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