Unbiased pushes Treasury to act on 'guidance guarantee confusion'

A poll from the website found a fifth of people want a meeting with a professional financial adviser to be included in the guidance guarantee. It said the Treasury should address the confusion surrounding the guarantee. It said the research clearly showed consumers are attributing characteristics of regulated financial advice to their understanding of what guidance guarantee means. While ‘a general overview' and ‘basic information' feature in the top five attributes, the remaining three are features of regulated advice. Some 16% wanted advice on retirement planning, 13% wanted advi...