Is financial advice a high-risk occupation?
REGULATION
When it comes to risky professions, financial advice may not be up there with fighting fire. But, with a regulator keen to ‘shoot first and ask questions later', did giving advice just get ugly?
Financial services lawyer Simon Morris, of CMS Cameron McKenna, follows the vagaries of financial regulation closely. He believes, from a regulatory point of view, advisers are facing a "very harsh market"....
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