Welcome to a new feature on Financial Planning Today called Newsmakers where Financial Planning Today catches up with the people making headlines in the Financial Planning and Paraplanning professions.

Organisers have spoken of a “great” Paraplanners Powwow last week.

If you’d told me 10 years ago that Paraplanners would don warpaint once a year and happily gather to chew over technical issues in a giant teepee in Northants I might have suggested you’d been smoking the peace pipe a bit too long.

Our 2019 survey has found a pattern of steady growth and stability for many Financial Planning firms, in contrast to wider turbulence in the UK economy and major upheaval in some sectors.