Circle of life: Financial advice and the ageing population

The regulator recently released a discussion paper entitled A collection of perspectives: Ageing population and financial services (DP16/1) which encourages advice firms to do more to support the ageing population, and ensure that consumers can access the financial products and services they need at every stage of their life.   The landscape of the UK's population is changing; although this is a fact with which we're all familiar, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) includes a couple of statistics which really drive the point home.   Firstly, that the average life expectancy of chil...