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Paraplanning should no longer be seen as a 'stop-gap' on the way to becoming an adviser, so says Chartwell Financial head of paraplanning Sarah Hammond.

Hammond is head of paraplanning and operations manager at Altrincham-based Chartwell Financial, which has been providing financial planning solutions to personal and corporate clients since 1992. Sarah joined Chartwell-Financial in August 2008 after being head of paraplanning at another firm. She is in charge of two paraplanners and four administrators.  Q. How did you get into paraplanning? A. It wasn’t a conscious decision in the sense that it wasn’t what I set out to do. I took a year out from university and started working as a secretary for a financial advisory firm. I then ...

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