When Ruth Whitehead Associates managing director Ruth Whitehead says she is “proud to be anti-establishment, especially the financial services establishment” you can sense there is a story to be told, writes Amanda Newman Smith in Money Marketing. Something that runs deeper than the usual dissatisfaction with regulation or Financial Services Compensation Scheme levies.
Whitehead set up her own IFA firm 25 years ago, almost as a mission to right the wrongs she had suffered at the hands of the financial services industry in 1989. A classically trained musician who had built a career as a professional bassoonist, she had the misfortune of being “advised to take out the mortgage from hell” by an unscrupulous broker, with devastating results….
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