Brexit may have hogged the headlines over the past 12 months but plenty else of note happened in the world of financial advice. Here we take a look at three events in 2018 that changed advice forever
Schroders and Lloyds team up On 23 October, investment manager Schroders and high street bank Lloyds announced they were entering into a strategic partnership to create a "market-leading wealth management proposition" with ambitions to become one of the "top three UK financial planning businesses within five years". These two giants of their respective areas of finance have not been the only ones looking to make a fresh dent in the advice market either - Natwest returned in 2017, while Santander has launched its robo-adviser, and even Octopus has got in on the action recently. The S...
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