Editor's View: A fond farewell and a thank you from me to you

The editor's Friday Night Takeaway from 12 July

Hope Coumbe
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This week’s column is going to be a little different to our usual offering, as the time has come for me to say goodbye.

After two years as editor of Professional Adviser and five years with our parent company, Incisive Media, I am returning to Australia. I have spent seven wonderful, eventful and thrilling years working at London news desks, almost all of them covering the financial advice sector. In my time at PA alone, I've been through five chancellors, four prime ministers, two monarchs, two governing parties, a cost-of-living crisis, Trussonomics and the subsequent economic crash, and a recession. With the introduction of Consumer Duty last year, I have also been at PA through the most significant overh...

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