The company has partnered with adviser recruitment firm ifamatch.com, with which it is to hold a series of seminars across the UK and Ireland.
Through the seminars the companies hope to recruit more than 20 “highly qualified” advisers this year to work within either Holborn’s UAE or African operations. Holborn also said it aims to have 100 advisers based in its Dubai office by the end of 2014 – the headcount stands at 50.
Holborn said it hopes to recruit advisers who have become disillusioned with the environment in the UK, saying that the purpose of seminars is to “provide informative unbiased information in a post-Retail Distribution Review [RDR] world to highly qualified advisers who have seen their industry slowly eroded and are looking for a new challenge”.
Holborn chief executive Bob Parker said: “As RDR approaches IFAs are looking more than ever at a career overseas. The offshore market presents bigger opportunities today than ever before as Irish and British workers move overseas to escape the downturn in the economy and find work in booming economies such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and even places like Ghana.”
The first seminar will be held in London tomorrow, where Brian Cosgrove, chief executive of ifamatch.com, will be one of the key speakers.
