Meet the Adviser Champions: Hearthstone's Cedric Bucher

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Cedric Bucher's worst-case scenario for the financial advice profession would be a "senseless race to the bottom" on pricing, he tells PA editor Julian Marr in this Adviser Champions video interview.

For the meantime, however, the Hearthstone Investments CEO believes advisers are doing a good job at offering a great service at the right price. "Pricing is something I worried a little bit about immediately after the Retail Distribution Review," he says, "but they've actually done a really good job at procuring the right - and best - service they can at the best price, which doesn't always have to be the cheapest price. "That's something we have seen with the growth of alternative investments as well, compared with equities and bonds, but can add value to investors in diversified po...

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