Distribution will be valuable to investors - KPMG

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Stockmarket investors may reconsider financial intermediary firms as valuable investment propositions within a few years, according to KPMG.

During a presentation at the FSA retail intermediaries conference in Birmingham earlier this week, about possible scenarios for the future of financial advice, Jeremy Oakley, director of strategic and commercial intelligence at KPMG, suggests based on analysis of the current intermediary market and the directions it could move in the future, investment analysts may be forced to rethink their perception of financial services distribution as a value commodity in the future. The study commissioned by the FSA and conducted by KPMG was designed to present ideas as to how what the financial adv...

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