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ERC appoints Simon Chalk to standards board

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  • 02/04/2014
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ERC appoints Simon Chalk to standards board
The Equity Release Council has appointed Simon Chalk of Age Partnership to its standards board to serve as adviser representative from 24 April.

Nikki Smith, head of compliance monitoring and development at Just Retirement, will also join the standards board to represent equity release providers.

Claire Barker of Equilaw and ERSA has been reappointed as solicitor representative and Mel Kettle of Gateway Surveyors will continue to serve as surveyor representative.

Chris Pond, chairman of the Equity Release Council Standards Board, said: “These new appointments are another important milestone in the development of the standards board as our growing industry continues to welcome new customers and businesses.”

Chalk holds the position of technical manager at Age Partnership and has worked as an equity release planner and adviser for over a decade.

Smith has spent ten years at Just Retirement having previously worked in compliance at GE Life and Britannic Retirement Solutions. 

Two independent members, Liz Barclay and Jim Dredge also sit on the standards Board alongside the council’s chairman, Nigel Waterson, and chief operating officer, Donna Bathgate.

Barclay is a BBC business broadcast journalist who presented Radio 4’s consumer programme ‘You and Yours’.

She also sits on the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) and the board of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS). 

Dredge has over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector primarily gained with Lloyds TSB and the Financial Services Authority. 

The council’s standards board brings together industry professionals and independent experts to oversee and update the standards and consumer safeguards established in 1991.

 

 

 

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