Advisers are increasingly optimistic about the future, research from Prudential has suggested, with growing numbers happy to recommend financial advice as a career.
Prudential's' 2018 Adviser Barometer found two-fifths (41%) of advisers and firms expected the number of advisers employed across the profession to grow in the year ahead, while twice that proportion (79%) were now happy to recommend financial advice as a career. These findings represent a marked change on just two years ago, when only 11% of advisers predicted growth in their numbers and 44% were inclined to recommend advice as a career. They also continue the upward trend of last year when the respective figures were 38% and 70%. Less positively, the research highlighted concerns ab...
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