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.

This week I attended the CISI Paraplanning Conference #paraconf19 held in the swish surroundings of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Stratford-Upon-Avon (don’t worry I’m not about to fill this column with Shakespearean puns).