M&G-backed Continuum targets 100 advisers

Leader on consolidation: ‘You don’t know what you’re buying’

Jen Frost
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Continuum expects to swell to 80 advisers by the end of 2024 and hit 100 advisers in “a couple of years” without sacrificing its organic growth emphasis, managing partner Martin Brown has told PA.

The Plymouth-headquartered financial planning partnership business, which was backed by M&G in March 2023, currently stands at 75 advisers with about £2.23bn in assets under influence. The IFA has been built without any acquisitions and has advisers as far north as Inverness with its reach stretching south to Cornwall. "We feel that because we've had a simple philosophy, we adopt one common trading platform, one common proposition, and collective behaviours, it gives brand consistency across the market," Brown said. "The problem with acquiring businesses, is you don't know what you're bu...

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