Pictured above: (l-r) John Western, Paul Gorman with event host Jeremy Vine

The Good Advice Awards were launched in 2010 to reward the very best advice organisations in the country, at a time when it has never been more important to recognise and promote those that provide excellent financial advice.

IFS regularly receive fantastic feedback from our clients, which is really appreciated, so they thought it about time to gauge what their peers within the financial services industry thought about their work, and the advice and services they supply.

Managing Director Paul Gorman commented "With much of our work revolving around tax and estate planning we considered this specialist category to be an appropriate one to enter"

As part of our submission they were asked to expand upon how they get to know clients and understand what it is they want to achieve as well as presenting an example of the innovative solutions they design for our clients. In addition, they offered detailed information on their financial planning service programme.

Towards the end of August IFS were extremely pleased to learn that the expert panel of judges had shortlisted their entry, and last Friday Paul & colleague John Western attended the annual Investment Life & Pensions Moneyfacts Awards in London, to find out their fate ! At the lunchtime ceremony their  awards were first up, so thankfully the wait was not too long !

Paul said "We were delighted to hear the sponsor of our award announce that we were Highly Commended within the best tax and estate planner category. The lunch afterwards was even more enjoyable knowing that our peers truly rate what we do for our clients."

The light has now come out from the under the bushel for IFS and they now have real enthusiasm to continue this trend and enter further awards !!