Health and regulation have been pushed into the spotlight this year with heads of the FSA and Aifa respectively announcing their withdrawal on health grounds from jobs that have profound impact on the work of IFAs.
While we absolutely wish both concerned the best of recoveries, these situations do raise some interesting questions about succession issues, and, above all, how those such as IFAs building businesses should react when policies of regulation and otherwise on which those businesses are built may come under pressure as a result.A lot of focus in the past few years has been on maintaining businesses through emergency or disaster planning, with tighter rules introduced on redundancy features, such as back-up power supplies, vital to the continued functioning of the UK economy.This has been focu...
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