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Recruitment and Establishment Director
John Kerr
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07917 072 390
john.kerr@quilter.com
Why choose Quilter Financial Advisers
Quilter Financial Advisers is the home for advisers who simply want to focus on being an adviser without the distractions, risks, and costs associated with running a business. Enjoy the freedom and control of being self-employed with the backing of a FTSE 250 company, and benefit from the Quilter brand. Hear from some of our recent joiners why they have chosen Quilter Financial Advisers.
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Run your own business with the backing of a powerful business partner
"The feedback has been fantastic. The Quilter brand is fantastic. The fact that people feel proud to be aligned to Quilter, a FTSE 250 company, is without parallel compared to some of the competitors we have."
With Quilter Financial Advisers you have the flexibility to run your own business with the backing of a powerful business partner – plus full support to get started if you need it.
Your competitive advantage with Quilter Financial Advisers
Quality leads through over 30 affinity firms providing access to 7 million members. Access to your dedicated business development team. Benefit from the Quilter brand, marketing, and promotion. Access to Quilter’s award-winning platform. Quality assured core investment proposition. Paraplanning support. Adviser retirement plan, to exit with confidence when it’s right. No professional indemnity excess. Industry leading publications.
Quilter Financial Advisers is the home for advisers who simply want to focus on being an adviser without the distractions, risks, and costs associated with running a business.
XPLAN point-of-sale software Integrated whole-of-market mortgage sourcing Exchange and LifeQuote Electronic ID verification
PI cover All FCA fees and charges FSCS levies Regulation updates including Consumer Duty Support to get your advice right Compliance and supervision
Training and development Extensive technical support Access to The Marketing Hub and Extranet Support to gain new clients and service existing clients
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John Kerr | Quilter Financial Planning Recruitment and Establishment Director
Opposite our Chief Distribution Officer Steve Gazard explains how Quilter can help advisers like you build your business. In addition Amanda Cassidy, Managing Director National, outlines the benefits to you of working with Quilter Financial Advisers.
As part of our national advice business, you’ll have the support and backing of a major FTSE 250 company in Quilter. You’ll also benefit from using Quilter’s award-winning investment platform, offering Quilter investment solutions to your clients. Quilter Financial Advisers is an appointed representative of Quilter Financial Planning.
Caroline
“There’s no such thing as a silly question. That’s important as a new adviser because there’s still so much I don’t know. I still need to learn but I’m in the perfect position to do it.”
Moved from a support role to an adviser within a year
Ben
“The good thing about joining is that you don't feel that you're alone. It hasn't really felt any different to being employed, but you get all the benefits of being self-employed.”
Took the leap from employed to self-employed
Hear from some of our new joiners
Benefits of working with us
We provide you with tailored support regardless of where you are in your career lifecycle: growing, maturing, or realising.
Support so you can give the best advice
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Regional support
Exit with confidence when it’s time
Rewarding your success
Choose from a broad range of investments
High quality new business leads
We give you everything you need to make your advice process easy. This includes high quality paraplanning and support services so you can be sure you’re always delivering the best outcomes to your clients, all while saving valuable time. We can help you by: producing suitability reports, enabling you to present a solid case to discuss with your clients helping you transition your existing clients onto the Quilter platform completing the ‘heavy lifting’ of research, key features, and cost analysis providing expert support and guidance on the advice process.
Your dedicated regional director will: give you time and support to bring you up to speed with systems and processes, lead generation, how to deal with clients, and product knowledge support you through any daily challenges you’re unable to resolve for yourself give you the support and guidance you need to develop your business help you meet annual targets, including driving forward campaigns and initiatives such as advice quality give you the opportunity to attend local regional meetings where you can stay up to date, learn, and provide feedback.
Unique in the marketplace, our national retirement plan is designed to give you a comfortable transition into retirement while making sure your clients continue to receive reliable and consistent service. Unlike our competitors, we also support you to grow your revenue and assets over time with paraplanning support, business development support, training and development, and a regular flow of quality leads from our affinity relationships. In combination, this will allow you to focus on advice and service and then exit with the confidence that you will be rewarded for having delivered robust and risk-appropriate advice. You also have the assurance that your clients will continue to be appropriately supported.
As a self-employed adviser within Quilter Financial Advisers, you’ll have an anticipated level of investment and pension new business based upon your prior performance and business plan requirements. You’ll receive a financial benefit for outperformance at an individual level over a given period. The more your outperformance, the greater your financial reward. So that you can stay on track, you’ll be issued with your individual objectives and regularly updated on your progress.
Our affinity partnership programme helps you build your business by providing an ongoing source of client enquiries. You’ll also be given the option to join our team of presenters and attain leads by delivering online and onsite financial education presentations, with packaged presentation material and full support from our dedicated events team. To allow you to manage your capacity and resources on an ongoing basis, you have the flexibility of joining the programme to receive enquiries on a month-to-month basis, if you wish. Our affinity team is currently trusted and retained by over 30 partner organisations and corporations across the UK, with some of our partnerships spanning over 15 years.
Our core investment proposition has been designed to help your clients reach their goals at a risk level they are comfortable with, with no nasty surprises along the way. You’ll be able to choose from a range of diversified multi-asset portfolios with clear objectives, risk levels, and broad exposures to underlying investment expertise from across the market. Each portfolio is managed for your client by a professional investment manager from Quilter. The range covers a full range of risk profiles, a choice of active management levels, all major client needs, and a choice of portfolio structures from OEICs to full discretionary fund management and model discretionary fund management.
Keep your knowledge up to date in the quickest, easiest way for you
Control costs, reduce costs, and save time
Meet your business development team
Real people with real experience to add to your team
Technology platforms
Reduce costs
Save time
Rollover to find out what each of our expert business development team brings unrivalled knowledge, experience, and vision to your business.
Whoever you’re speaking to in Quilter Financial Planning, you can expect the highest levels of support.
All our learning sessions are interactive so you can ask the questions relevant to you and are tested with advisers to ensure they’re worth your time. So, whatever events you choose to take advantage of, you’ll always go away with valuable knowledge.
Dynamic Planner
XPLAN and XPM
Client Portal
Your Learning Academy
Comm Pay
After partnering with us, you get immediate access to our technology platforms. They make it easy to do business and provide exceptional service and flexibility so you can run your business in the best way for you and your clients.
Your dedicated website and marketing hub
The marketing hub has a range of ready-to-use marketing content to help you stay in contact with clients and generate new leads.
Brochures Topical factsheets Client discussion guides Client magazines Online adverts
Our academy programme is more than a selection of stand-alone workshops. It’s a comprehensive development programme that will help you develop your skills and knowledge of specific markets, including:
Wealth Mortgage Protection
Academies
Propositions heads Relationship managers Field coaches Regional support consultants Adviser support team Mortgage support team
See all the experienced professionals available to you
Training team Marketing Field supervision team Regional directors Business consultancy Leadership team
John partnered with Quilter in January 2022 as Recruitment and Establishment Director. John previously spent over 14 years as a Regional Director, playing a vital role in growing businesses.
Steve Gazard
CEO
Steve partnered with Quilter Financial Planning in 2017 as Group Managing Director, bringing vast knowledge and industry experience. Steve became Chief Executive Officer in June 2020.
Adrian Keane-Munday
National Sales Director
Adrian is the National Sales Director and has responsibility for managing and building the business’, our online support hub for advisers and clients, as well as growing and evolving the national advice business, including both its proposition and adviser recruitment.
Lee Barnard
Business Development Director
Lee joined Quilter Financial Advisers in 2020 and is Business Development Director. Lee brings with him a wealth of experience in managing and growing our affinity and professional connections lead generation programme.
Amanda Cassidy
Managing Director
Amanda has been in the financial services industry for over 29 years, with experience in both adviser and senior leadership roles and became Managing Director of the national advice business in late 2020.
Specialist masterclasses and workshops
Your specialist Quilter Financial Advisers masterclasses and workshops give you further insight and help you explore the opportunities presented by changes to legislation or other developments within the advice market.
Dynamic Planner is a market-leading servicing tool that will deliver a slick end-to-end servicing process, saving you time. Your benefits:
Integration with XPLAN and Intelliflo meaning that your client information can be readily available in Dynamic Planner, and documents saved between the two systems Helps produce a compliant, professional progress check report for ongoing advice reviews Client Risk Profiling, Cash Flow Modelling, Fund and Product Research tools working together in Dynamic Planner to create an effective client review Using Dynamic Planner helps you meet Consumer Duty requirements
XPLAN and XPM are our bespoke point-of-sale and back-office technology platforms for wealth (XPLAN) and mortgage (XPM) advisers. Developed specifically for Quilter Financial Advisers, they help you get to know your clients better, do more business, stay compliant, and improve efficiency. Both systems are fully integrated with our sales processes and provide you with everything you need, such as online factfinding, risk profiling, suitability reports, and integrated mortgage and protection sourcing.
Comm Pay is the payments reconciliation system fully integrated with XPLAN to ensure a seamless experience. Comm Pay allows you to set up new business events, create and manage invoices, generate reports, and more.
This online tool supports your personal and professional development by providing a wealth of learning material. The system’s integrated platform logs and maintains all learning undertaken for your own personal continuing professional development (CPD) record.
We provide access to an online client portal to ensure your clients always have access to their latest financial information.
Technical masterclass Tax & IHT planning masterclass Discretionary fund management workshops Alternative investment workshops
Chief Distribution Officer
Control costs
Control costs with our transparent and all-inclusive cost model.
With Quilter Financial Advisers you receive a complete admin system, including CRM, full compliance support, online accounting, and also get discounts on various solutions and services.
We’ll help you save time by delivering robust and safe compliance, comprehensive research, and efficient business processes, with extensive information available at your fingertips online.
Everything you need, all in one place
Our regular email newsletters inform you of the latest developments
Get news personalised for you
Each newsletter can be tailored to your preferences
So, you can quickly catch up, only receiving the news you want
We have a transparent and all-inclusive cost model for advisers. These costs cover: Software: - Core systems: Iress Xplan / XPM /CommPay/The Exchange or Intelligent Office/The Exchange or Assureweb, Quilter Platform. - Additional software tools: ATR Tool, 4-D Client Profiling Tool, Lifequote, 4C Platform, What are the chances tool, AIR sourcing. Technology Hub – our library of video tutorials, guides, training, and support. The Learning Academy. URU – electronic ID verification. Worksmart - web-based system that captures training and competency activities for firms and advisers. FCA regulatory fees and FSCS/FOS levies. Professional indemnity insurance. Induction courses, agency agreements and novation. Full compliance support and ongoing supervision. Training and development support. Relationship management and helpdesk support. A whole host of other benefits, such as the Quilter Financial Adviser School, marketing hub, adviser recruitment, financial promotions expertise etc. To help you join us and settle in, we do not apply our weekly adviser charge for the initial 12 weeks after your adviser representative’s appointment date.
We help you run more effectively by helping you control and reduce costs and save time.
We provide you with a complete administration system including: full compliance support, induction courses, and ongoing supervision a commission reconciliation system additional tools at reduced costs: CI Expert, Dynamic Planner, Defaqto, Trigold.
We save you valuable time by: providing a compliance team to help you get it right first time. You’ll also be given full compliance training and competence support to run your business safely and profitably we do the research so you don’t have to, adding real value to the service you give your clients delivering streamlined processes and pre-populated paragraphs for suitability reports and defined benefit pension transfers providing you with a host of items that save you time, including: a series of templates to do the heavy lifting, including employment contracts and client letters
Technology
Technology to increase your time and efficiency
Tools
Our renowned academies and masterclass Access to the Extranet and Marketing Hub
Real people with real experiences to add to your team
Teams
Discover all your different types of support:
Our onboarding process has been designed so that you become part of our network as efficiently as possible. No matter where your business model currently sits, we work to ensure you and your clients undergo minimum disruption.
When you join Quilter Financial Advisers, you will be assigned a business support manager to work closely with you and help you on your journey to 'competent adviser status'. Beyond that, and under the guidance of the Head of Adviser Relationships, all advisers, whatever the stage of their career, will have the opportunity to work with their business support manager on how they develop their business.
1. Understanding you
We seek to understand what you’re looking to achieve, exploring what you can expect and how to overcome any challenges to your success.
4. Refine
To ensure your relationship with Quilter Financial Advisers continues to provide you with value, we formally check your progress every three, six, nine and twelve months and refine and enhance our support for you where required. This also gives a forum for any suggestions and improvements that we can discuss and implement together.
2. Planning
We explore how you will trade, get paid, and benefit from the right level of support for your business. Together, we’ll create a simple plan with clear accountabilities and responsibilities to ensure your transition to Quilter Financial Advisers goes smoothly. We’ll also agree on the terms of our relationship.
3. Implementation
After submitting your membership application - which includes referencing and due diligence – you’ll receive an invitation to an induction event. We’ll also create a plan to achieve competent adviser status for advisers, agreeing regular milestone review points so you know what to expect.
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Your business support managers are here to help with business development and training
This can include help with:
Professional connections
Maximising client reviews
Central marketing support
Digital engagement and tech solutions
Professional development
Career progression
Working with affinity partners
Advice quality and good customer outcomes
Our priorities as a business
Growth with our customers and advisers
Embrace digital
Enhance efficiency
Be the responsible wealth manager
Quilter’s four strategic priorities guide us on our journey and help us stay relevant and grow for the benefit of you and your clients.
History
Values
Vision
Priorities
Quilter is a leading provider of financial advice, investments, and wealth management. We have a market-leading proposition which supports advisers and their clients as their financial requirements evolve throughout their lives.
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We will maximise synergies across our business, increase operational efficiency, and reduce our complexity and costs to become more streamlined and resilient.
Creating simplicity across our business Improving our existing adviser quality and productivity Re-writing our advice processes to make delivering and robustly documenting quality advice easier Delivering identified expense reductions Delivering network pricing initiatives. Completing alignment of functions and people with the Advice and Retail Investment segment where possible Ensuring effective due diligence is undertaken before recruiting new ARs and Advisers.
We will align our expertise and resources around the needs of our key customer groups with tailored advice and products and a streamlined experience, driving our growth agenda.
Only recruit advisers who are aligned with our values and goals Grow our Network organically Articulate and market our enhanced proposition Continually improve our service Align strategically with other parts of Quilter.
We will enhance and modernise our digital service experience to engage our customers of today and tomorrow.
Leveraging our new platform technology to gain market share and integrate for a consistent digital experience across Quilter Delivering efficient technology to enable our advisers to provide quality-assured advice Developing our adviser technology strategy for National and Network separately Enhancing our internal systems to remove manual controls.
We will act and invest responsibly, becoming a leader in ESG investing. We will be a responsible employer, modernising our culture to attract, develop and retain great talent and embrace inclusivity.
Ensuring that ESG is embedded in the advice process and that ESG tools and metrics are embedded within our propositions Up-skilling advisers to support them in having ESG conversations with clients Creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people can thrive Transforming to a new operating model Engaging our people in our journey Enabling two-way communications – colleague voice Setting our people up for success by equipping them with the right tools (E.g., Mindflick, Thrive, Degreed, etc.) Recognising our colleagues when they are successful, innovative, and productive and living our values.
Our vision
Our vision is to create prosperity for the generations of today and tomorrow. It shapes everything we do, from the people we’ve recruited to the solutions we develop and the way we constantly strive for improvement.
Our history
For decades we’ve been helping UK financial advisers deliver a high quality service to their clients and we currently manage more that £101.4bn of assets*
Our values
Our values of being pioneering, dependable and stronger together drive how we behave towards customers, advisers, and each other. These qualities are embedded in our environment, policies, practices, and how we encourage our employees to work and communicate.
*As at 30 September 2023 www.quilter.com/about-us/quilter-plc
Our priorities
From embracing digital to ensuring that ESG is embedded in the advice process, our priorities help us stay relevant and grow for the benefit of advisers and their clients.
"Quilter is a model example of how to operate responsibly"
Therese Chambers
Joint Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
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