Chloe Timperley: Why advice businesses need more creative talent

Think of the financial advice profession and you do not immediately think ‘creativity'. A cursory glance at some of the entry-level graduate roles in financial planning currently on offer tells you the skills valued most among employers are the technical ones. They want finance backgrounds, they want IT literacy - some even specify an A Level in mathematics. Sure, there is often a checkbox requirement for budding new advisers to have ‘a high standard of written and oral communication skills' but it is highly unusual in your standard job posting to find the word ‘creativity'. Yet this is ...