The new partnership formalises the relationship between Stonebridge and SFS allowing the two organisations to work more closely together to place appropriate AR firms within the network and to develop a variety of placement opportunities for advisers looking to move practices.
SFS are specialists in matching AR firms to networks and offer a full fact finding, profiling, and support service in order to ensure the AR is placed with the most appropriate network.
Since it began working in this area, SFS have successfully placed a number of AR firms with Stonebridge and the two organisations have now pledged to work closer together in order to develop the ongoing arrangement and to ensure more firms are aware of the opportunities Stonebridge has to offer.
Richard Adams, Managing Director of Stonebridge Group, commented:
“We have been particularly pleased with the work of SFS Recruitment and have got to know Phil and his team well over the course of the last few months. They operate to the highest standards in terms of AR firm and adviser support, and leave no stone unturned when it comes to finding the right home for them.
"Many advisers and firms are unhappy where they are but often do not have the time or resource to conduct a full investigation around the alternatives available. This is where SFS come in and we have found their attention to detail to be second to none in this field. The ongoing relationship has ensured a number of AR firms have already joined Stonebridge via SFS and we therefore wanted to ensure we worked as closely as possible with them.
"This new strategic partnership is all about ensuring SFS have all the information and details they need to provide their adviser and firm clients with all the available Stonebridge options. We are looking forward to developing this even further and believe it will enable both firms to meet their ambitions in this area.”
Phil Roberts, Director of SFS Recruitment, said:
“At SFS we choose our client partnerships very carefully and are always keen to work with leading market players. Over the last few years there has been a real need to support ARs in finding new network hosts due to challenging market conditions.
"During our extensive work in this area we have found Stonebridge to offer something different from its competitors focusing their attention towards the ARs in supporting their own business growth. They achieve this through their development work and taking more of a business-minded approach and practical can-do attitude.
“On a pure business partnership basis we enjoy working with the team at Stonebridge and effectively support them in many other ways with regards to their overall resource requirements. We now look forward to introducing their successful proposition formula to many more AR firms. In these challenging times there is a real need for such an approach to help businesses look at their own model and achieve growth through additional income streams and different ways of working.”
