John Ellis, head of public affairs at the Personal Finance Society, is leaving the organisation after a transitional period and will be replaced by Barclays' David Thomson.
If you want to improve reputation, you need to do reputable things and make sure that your reputation is not owned by someone else who can dictate what people should think of you. That is the philosophy which lies behind the case for a professional body...
Julie Henderson, editor of IFAonline, talks to Bob Bullivant, executive chairman of the Personal Finance Society, and discovers the new professional body plans to talk tough in its media campaign.
Information about the replacement for the FPC is now available on the website of the Chartered Insurance Institute.
The LIA's head of public affairs John Ellis has now been promoted to group director of public affairs.
IFA network Berkeley Independent Advisers has teamed up with South African practice management expert Anthony Morris to launch a business coaching programme for IFAs.
The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has begun work on a number of projects, the first of which will be to tackle depolarisation, defining what people will and will not be able to do with their business.
The FSA will next month reveal further details of the "basic advice" regime which is now being implemented from April 2005.
Merger of the Life Insurance Association and the Society of Financial Advisers will now go ahead after Sofa members this afternoon voted in favour of a single professional body.
Members of the Life Insurance Association have voted in favour of a merger with the Society of Financial Advisers, officials have just announced.