Market views: Will consumers fear fees for protection post-RDR?

Alan Lakey, Highclere Financial Services It’s a mad world out there and the RDR only serves to reinforce such a view. Do consumers differentiate between investment advice and protection advice? I think not, to them it is simply financial advice, thus the appellation ‘financial adviser’. Regulatory differentiation between products will assuredly create confusion and a reluctance to engage with the industry, something which should strike any innocent observer as bizarre because a reduction in consumer confusion is purportedly one of the main planks of the RDR proposition. Simplicity ...