SPEAKERS

Tom Hegarty is Managing Director of M&G Wealth Advice, a key advice channel within M&G Plc’s distribution strategy, and built the M&G Wealth Advice Academy in 2021 to support the accessibility and affordability of financial advice in the UK. Previously, he was Managing Director of the SimplyBiz Group’s not-for-profit training and development division, the New Model Business Academy, where he developed one of the first Apprenticeship programmes in Financial Services. His career in financial services now spans three decades, during which time he has gathered experience across the entire sector with perspectives of adviser, provider, network, and training academy.

He is currently chairing the Trailblazer Group to revise the apprenticeship standards in Financial Advice and Paraplanning in England and he is Chair of the New Talent Alliance, which was created earlier this year under the umbrella of the Consumer Duty Alliance, and which aims to help attract, recruit, train and retain new talent, by collaborating with all stakeholders across the financial advice sector.