Fiona Murphy looks at the results of Retirement Planner's inquiry into RDR and finds out how advisers have survived and adapted to the reforms.
In January, Financial Conduct Authority chief executive, Martin Wheatley said he believed advisers have "generally benefited" from the Retail Distribution Review (RDR.) Advisers had seen revenues increase and they are more professional and better qualified, the regulator added. Do advisers hold this same view or is the regulator slightly out of touch? In this month's Retirement Planner inquiry we asked advisers and other interested parties to tell us about their experiences of how the RDR has affected how they do business. We distributed the survey via email to Retirement Planner r...
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