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Three years on: How Finova Money built a fixed-fee business

Scott Millar, Rob Schwarz and Rob Bell reflect on what they have learned since they launched their own financial planning firm in 2023. Now with £80m in assets under advice and two recently hired graduates, the trio discuss their biggest mistakes and their best decisions since they launched Finova Money.

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AML checks, choppy valuations and SJP exits

NMA journalists delve into their stories on anti-money laundering checks, the latest PE-backed adviser sale and the latest on advice firms leavings SJP.

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Gary Abela: AI is putting pressure on advice valuations

The consultant who helps advice firms adopt AI into their businesses reflects on what AI tools are currently on offer, how advisers can get the best out of them and what is coming down the tracks. Abela also talks about some of the big mistakes advisers are using with AI, and how it is affecting advice valuations and fees.

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The Advice Show: Mike Ambery on the Pensions Commission

Mike Ambery discusses the Pension Commission on this week's show, including offering his thoughts on the future viability of the triple lock.

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The Advice Show: PWM’s Fiona Oliver

The head of £6.3bn London advice firm PWM talks succession, being owned by 7IM and how she cut client DFM fees down by £1m annually.

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The Advice Show: Chris Jones

Chris Jones, Dynamic Planner's financial services director, joins this week to discuss the FCA's recent landmark reforms to the advice market, artificial intelligence and whether lower qualified advisers should be permitted to deliver advice.

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Platform One: We get excited about AI, implementation is a different story

Platform One CEO Alex Cowan-Sanluis talks to Citywire’s Advice Show about the regulatory challenges of implementing AI and what advisers should be operating their own platforms.

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Hayley Rabbets: There's nowhere to put new advisers

Head of Evergreen talks about the pitfalls in bringing in new talent, and how perception in advice matters the most.

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The risers and fallers in Citywire’s PE Leaderboard

Citywire’s Dan Grote and Jack Gilbert discuss the movers and shakers in PE-backed advice

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FCA director: We want consolidators to think about incentives

Laura Dawes, the FCA’s director of authorisations, joins the Advice Show to discuss how the regulator is handling authorisations, what advice firms can do to make applications smooth and how the regulator still thinks about advice firm phoenixing. Dawes also discusses the regulator’s consolidator review last year, and how the FCA wants consolidators to think about adviser incentives when it does…

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Connor Broadley’s MD on picking the right tech for the £750m firm

Alex Twiss, the managing director of London advice firm Connor Broadley, joins the Advice Show to discuss the firm’s AI provider Saturn and how he thinks the technology could soon be writing advisers’ suitability reports. In the podcast Twiss also says his firm is reviewing platform providers and discusses the keys to getting the best out of his financial planning team.

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