Buckles launches mass market advice offering

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Buckles is launching a new streamlined remote advice service in a bid to take financial advice to the mass market.

The IFA's virtual advice service, which launches this month on a trial basis, will strip out the "cumbersome" and hefty cost of delivering advice with a service users can access over the phone and internet, the firm says. However, it stressed it is only the delivery of advice which is being simplified, not the scope of that advice. "This is the holy grail a lot of people are working on - how to deliver advice in a simple way," says CEO Nigel Speirs (pictured). "We are working with technology to simplify what we do." The phone and internet part of the service - which involves the ad...

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