A technical hitch saw 100 advisers receive the same email from James Hay more than 1,000 times over the weekend.
A client relationship manager at the SIPP provider sent a case study on Friday morning but a malfunction caused the message to re-send continually for the rest of the day as well as through Saturday and Sunday. Some advisers were still receiving the email this morning. Although the company attempted to recall the message once the fault had been spotted on Friday, the recall notification was also sent out hundreds of times. Keith Churchouse, director of Churchouse Financial Planning, says he was unable to receive or send emails over the weekend as a result of the mishap. "It's quite...
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