The Personal Finance Society (PFS) is ditching its annual conference in favour of four national financial planning symposiums.
The first of the four will take place in London on 2 November and will feature the annual chartered awards gala dinner, followed by Newport (18 November), Edinburgh (26 November) and Birmingham (30 November). Titled ‘A vision for financial planning', the overhauled 2015 programme is "practitioner and future-focused", the PFS said in a statement. The move comes as the Institute of Financial Planning and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment are due to formally merge on 1 November, creating a bigger rival to the historically much larger PFS and its sister body the Charter...
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