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There is more to the value of your business than meets the eye, writes Steve Hagues, founder of Retiring IFA...

In just a few weeks, the retail distribution review (RDR) will be here and, if figures quoted by the national newspapers, consultancies and various trade bodies are to be believed, up to 3,000 IFAs could disappear from our green and pleasant land. While many advisers have strived to change their business models, achieve the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA’s) required level four qualification, and obtain their statements of professional standing, others have seen RDR as the catalyst for a different kind of change: a new career or retirement. According to figures from the FSA, the n...

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