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...
The Personal Finance Society (PFS) will spend at least £1m in 2006 in its first major drive to communicate the role of the professional body to the financial services industry to consumers.
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.
Brian Steeples has been appointed as the first president of the Personal Finance Society (PFS).
The LIA's head of public affairs John Ellis has now been promoted to group director of public affairs.
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.
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.