Former threesixty director David Ingram has launched a support service for product manufacturers and fund management groups to help them prepare for the retail distribution review (RDR).
Aim Two Three will provide clients with market intelligence, consultancy services, product research and regulatory support so they can in turn help financial advisers. Ingram said it was "becoming clear" during his time at threesixty that providers did not necessarily have a handle on what they were doing with their RDR preparations. "Product providers have been unbelievably arrogant over the last four or five years in the sense of sitting back and telling IFAs what to do whilst not actually recognising there was a huge step change for themselves as well," he said. "They have been ...
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