Blevins Franks service targets UK advisers amid European tax 'education gap'

‘This is a really natural home to sort things out’

Sophia Panayi
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Blevins Franks CEO James Roberts discussed the firm’s plans for its new service designed for UK advisers.

With offices in France, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Malta, Monaco and the UK, the firm provides specialist financial planning for British expats across Europe and is hoping to extend its services to other financial advisers. Due to rule changes following Brexit, Roberts said that both advice firms and advisers themselves are now "running a risk" if they continue to look after British clients who have migrated to Europe. "The service is really about saying to UK advisers, we can help look after those clients and we can remove the risk from your books," he explained. Previously there ha...

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