How to run an IFA business

This week's Investment Week Articulate page considers the best strategies for running an intermediary firm in the depolarised world. If there's a subject you'd like to see explored on this page, please email: [e-mail]

With depolarisation now upon us it is past the time to define a new or improved path for your business. Those who are looking for an exit route must investigate their options and move quickly as the industry is fast changing. Unless one can get horsepower behind business profitability survival will be a long way off. For those that commit to running a business in future there is a need, to coin a New Zealand rugby phrase, to get some real go forward into the plans. Reducing overheads and moving as much cost out to operational expense is a first step but it does not finish there. A busines...