Trusting your IFA
It can be argued that the relationship between the financial adviser and the financially advised is as close as any family bond or life-long friendship. What takes place between such a pair can mean the difference between a life time of prosperity and security or the rest of a life spent in abject poverty and misery.

ExpatMoneyChannel's Hannah Beecham would like to suggest that the vital ingredient that must bind these two players together can be summed up in one word ... trust.

So to find out how an expat can be certain trust can be safely placed on the head and shoulders of an IFA - independent financial adviser - she asks expert Paul Stanfield, Chief Executive of The Federation of European Independent Financial Advisers (FEIFA), to describe what expats can do to ensure they only inhabit the drylands of adviser/client introductions and instructions and not the bog haunts of financial crooks and con merchants.

Paul Stanfield explains how expats can do a lot of their own investigative work to check out the bona fides of an IFA and in this interview signposts where to look to conduct such essential due diligence. He also explains that despite the acronym of FEIFA being pronounced the same as FIFA, he can't dispense football match tickets but he can check out any member IFA on an expat's behalf!

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