Consumers looking for an adviser up 9% - Unbiased

Nicola Brittain
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There has been a significant increase in consumers looking for advisers, despite the changed regulatory landscape following the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according adviser website Unbiased.

|The site has seen a 9% increase in consumer searches for advice during the first four months of 2013 compared with the same period last year. The top three areas consumers were interested in advice on were pensions, investments and tax planning. The site also experienced an increase in website traffic of 12%. The website, which lists details of over 15,000 whole of market advisers, deals with an average of 450,000 consumer searches per year. Unbiased chief executive Karen Barrett said: "There has been much debate regarding the question of consumers being priced out of the market o...

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