Silly season shorts: Finance over fashion?

Consumers are more likely to go to their friends for financial advice than fashion, according to research commissioned by Alliance & Leicester. The banking group says it commissioned over 2,100 people to discover around one in 10 Britons (13%) have taken financial advice from a friend in the last 12 months and almost a quarter would do so, while almost six out of 10 (58%) said they would not take financial advice from a friend. This appears to contradict evidence from sources elsewhere, however, and more notably a survey conducted by public relations WeberShandwick which found 62% of peo...