The Independent Portal was created to provide a very cost effective ‘Recruitment’ platform for Independent firms of Financial Advisers. This is a facility by which you can advertise your organisation to potential Financial Advisers, Para-Planners, Product Specialists or Administrators, who will be interested in working for you.

Independent Financial Advising Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to attract and recruit good quality Advisers and Experienced staff members. It is so important to recruit the right person but the problem is trying to find the most effective way of attracting these people. The options are very limited and can be very costly both in time and money.

Local recruitment agencies can charge as much as £5,000 plus, per Experienced Qualified Person

Advertising can cost between £500 - £4,000 per insertion (one insertion per week)

This is where we can help . . .

If, we asked you, “would you like to advertise your company, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, and included in that have a ready made, low cost recruitment presence on a specialist financial adviser portal that’s regularly advertised to the whole industry – for as little as under £5 per day”……would you be interested?

That’s fine, but when you do – you might be too late. We will strongly advise member firms to continuously advertise themselves. You just might miss out on that ‘ideal’ candidate. It does happen.

When you want to take on a new Financial Adviser, we find it often takes many months to recruit that ideal person. On average it takes 6 months to get someone new up and running.

So you might interview an excellent candidate but not be in a position just yet to take them on. In most cases, they will be prepared to wait. Once they know a potential start date with you, they can spend much valuable time building and developing their own client base prior to joining you.

To market The Independent Portal and to maximise its exposure we propose to advertise the Portal extensively in Financial Adviser and Money Marketing. We appreciate the importance of market awareness and branding the name The Independent Portal. There will also be a certain amount of editorials about the site which will provide more publicity about us.

We believe that as this site will be totally unique in the field of recruitment, and that through word of mouth, The Independent Portal will become a strong brand in the IFA sector.

The Banccassuring industry has now established itself as being the largest provider of Financial Services products advising a very broad client base. These Banks are attracting, training and developing new Advisers to the industry. These Advisers are under a lot of pressure and stress to perform and achieve unrealistic levels of production.

It is these Financial Advisers, who, long term look at you, The Independent Firm of Financial Advisers, as their future. Their problem is that they do not have the facility of finding or being introduced to Companies such as yourselves.