Brexit will provide the third biggest opportunity but also the biggest threat to the advice sector over the next 24 months, according to a survey of 250 financial advisers.
Aegon's adviser attitudes report found a fifth (21%) of advisers believed Brexit would be one of the biggest opportunities for them over the next 24 months, coming behind only defined benefit transfers (53%) and the upcoming pensions dashboard (26%). Two-fifths (40%), however, also reckoned Brexit would be one of the biggest threats to the advice sector over the next two years - ahead of robo-advice (31%) and non-Brexit related political uncertainty (30%). Aegon pensons director Steven Cameron suggested some advisers were thinking Brexit would provide opportunities because they would ...
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