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“‘Feeling of relief’: advisers react to FCA’s ongoing advice findings”
You may disagree, other opinions are available and so on. But our regulator has decided that we’re not as bad as they thought we were. As part of their ‘Consumer Duty’ initiative – the duty being to put the consumer first – the FCA carried out a review of the service being provided by advisers of all shapes and sizes, from a one-man band near you to the giants probably nowhere near you.
“Advice firm Almond Financial moves to four-day working week”
The Four Day Week was much discussed and trailed post-COVID, when remote-working looked likely to end strap-hanging commutes for good and laptops on the kitchen table were to become the ’new norm’.
“‘Clear trend’ of smaller IFAs exiting the market”
As rehearsed many times on these pages, the average age of the financial adviser population is around retirement age and for many the (on paper, anyway) easy route to that retirement is to sell out to another IFA looking to expand, or, more likely, to a ‘consolidator’