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“‘AI could mean advisers can take on 500 clients'”
The ‘optimum’ number of clients which an adviser can effectively look after is much discussed at all levels in our business.
“FOS complaints surge by more than 40% in first half of 2024”
Robbie Williams hit the rock bottom of depression because of the one or two (in the Daily Mail and on Never Mind…) who said he was rubbish, despite the hundreds of thousands who adored him in huge stadiums. Talk to any financial adviser, and it’s the same with the one complainant from hundreds of satisfied clients.
“Industry reacts as FCA probes 20 social media influencers”
We’ve always been a small firm, even when we thought we were big, as the official classification is ‘ten advisers or less’. There is a, perhaps justifiable perception that our regulator would prefer to regulate far fewer big firms, rather than the many thousands of smaller adviser companies which are still in the vast majority, with over 88% of the 4,600 odd directly-authorised financial advisers comprising less than 5 advisers.