Peter Lawrence blog 1: First impressions

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Peter Lawrence spent 30 years in IT but last year launched his own IFA firm. So, at a time of an apparent exodus of advisers, this man is moving againt the grain. He will be blogging on IFAonline about his experiences...

"I like firsts. In thirty odd years in IT I worked on quite a few of them - the first TV remote controls, the first "portable" hard discs, the first IBM PCs, the first networks (or "notworks" as they were), the first web-based systems...

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