Adviser-turned-compliance director: 'I understand where advisers come from'

Pearce began her career as a part-time mortgage-adviser at Leeds Building Society and latterly became a compliance consultant. She progressed to become a financial planner and then held compliance roles at Barclays, Tenet, Brown Shipley, Threesixty, Towry, Equilibrium Asset Management and RGP. Pearce highlighted her experience with an armed robbery at Leeds Building Society, which led to a career shift. After that ordeal, she had considered becoming an IFA but held the view that it was going to be very target orientated. "That really wasn't what I wanted at that point in time an...