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Article: Harry Katz: this outspoken IFA ran a plastics factory turning out bungs for beer barrels before moving into financial services and he sees parallels in regulation, with the financial factory inspector being the FSA, but is determined to stay independent to the bitter end.(Profile)(Independet Financial Advisers)(Biography)
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- Money Marketing
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- August 26, 2004
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Harry Katz feels like a newcomer to financial services even though next year marks his 20th anniversary as an IFA but he is the first to admit that times have changed.
He had a very different life before financial services. In 1968 he set up a plastics factory in Darwen in the North-west, which he ran for 16 years before training as a financial adviser with Samuel Hill.
It was easier to quantify what you did for the week, he says, when you saw masses of plastic containers on the shelf. Weltonhurst--Katz's factory--specialised in producing plastic petrol tanks and buckets. Along the way he picked up a number of patents, including one for a system of ...