Neil Liversidge: Why I'll never join a network

Letter from the frontline

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Earlier this week, regular PA columnist Tim Sargisson revisited the argument that small advisers should have to join a network - prompting this typically robust response from Neil Liversidge

This time last year, LEBC chairman and CEO Jack McVitie suggested on Professional Adviser that all small IFA firms be forced to join networks while, earlier this week, Sandringham managing director Tim Sargisson endorsed that view. Both should mind their own respective businesses and not try to force independents into indentured servitude. Whatever fancy titles Jack and Tim enjoy, at the end of the day they are employees and they speak from that perspective. I'm not an employee, I own my business. I set it up so I could be my own boss and offer a truly independent service, untainted by t...

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