There are heaps of events for Paraplanners nowadays; high quality seminars, conferences and roadshows, many of which are specifically created by and for Paraplanners, writes Caroline Stuart.

Delegates at the CISI Financial Planning Conference in Birmingham today heard how 60% of clients would fire their parents’ Financial Planner.

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.

A report published by Octopus Group at the beginning of August, reported that “almost a third (29%) of financial advisers polled said they expect to retire within the next five years, rising to 6 in 10 (58%) within the next ten.” This is “equivalent to more than 15,000 financial advisers leaving the profession out of a current total of over 26,600.”