Next Generation Advisers: Meet Xentum's Ed Stubbs

‘We need to make financial advice a proper profession’

Isabel Baxter
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In the Next Generation Advisers interview series, senior reporter Isabel Baxter introduces the next generation of advisers and highlights how they are planning to make their mark. Today’s featured adviser is Xentum’s Ed Stubbs...

Xentum financial planner Ed Stubbs is an adviser with a plan – to hone in on the business owner client segment, grow Knutsford-based Xentum and make financial planning a "proper profession". His personal route to financial advice came not from a calling but from connections at the cricket pavilion. He started at the advice firm ten years and a half ago as a trainee financial planner. He then progressed to become a financial planner and latterly Chartered. He told PA that financial advice was never something that was really on his radar. "I went to Nottingham University and did phys...

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