CII/PFS saga fuelled again as campaign group calls out 'questionable' actions

Alasdair Walker comments on the CII’s latest board overhaul

Isabel Baxter
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Campaign group ‘Our PFS’ has called out the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) on its latest board appointments.

Headed up by Handford Aitkenhead & Walker manging director and former Personal Finance Society (PFS) chair Alasdair Walker, the group is called the CII's latest round of PFS board appointments "incredibly questionable". The campaign group wrote: "It has been around a year since the last actions of ourpfs.co.uk, with a general feeling that issues between CII and PFS were in the process of being resolved. "Unfortunately, this has been blown wide open again thanks to incredibly questionable actions taken by the CII on 1 October." It said it is "urgently" investigating and will be writ...

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