Retirement Advantage picks former IFA for equity release role

Spent many years as an IFA

Victoria McKeever
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Les Pick, formerly of LV= and Just, has been appointed equity release head of sales at Retirement Advantage.

Pick (pictured) joins after two years as LV= business development manager and was previously national sales head at The Right Equity Release. Prior to that he was a financial adviser at Just and had also worked as an IFA at the Equity Release Supermarket. Pick, who worked as a financial adviser for more than a decade, had initially started out with Aviva. Retirement Advantage equity release managing director Tom Evans said: "We are thrilled to welcome Les to our team. There is a pressing need for providers to meet the challenges a bigger cohort of potential customers, and qualified ad...

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