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Netwealth on hunt for IFAs

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Advice sector is changing, £3bn in lost shares and dividends and mortgage prisoners - here's your weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Covid ‘changing' investment advisory industry, says fund chief The Financial Times' speaks to Netwealth's soon-to-be chairman Edward Bonham Carter in this article, who argues the Covid-19 pandemic is driving investors to reassess their financial affairs. The investment platform's incoming chairman believes a change is coming in the advice market, with people wanting different things from the sector. "I don't think change has been particularly fast in our industry," he tells the FT, "but I think Covid-19 is making people look at their financial affairs." The article says that, befor...

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