Odd jobs: my trickiest clients

Gareth Griffiths Partner at Pro Sport Wealth Management (official partner of the Professional Footballers' Association) Client job: Athlete   We predominantly work with footballers, as well as rugby players and other athletes. The average career length for a footballer is eight years so they have a very short window of opportunity in terms of the planning that is available to them. Footballers now fall into two categories: players with pension benefit options that they had before A-Day in 2006 and players who became a professional after 2006 - the latter require different planni...