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The Times frustrates advisers

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The value of financial advice, IHT bills and buying gold to fight inflation - here's our weekly heads-up of articles in the weekend newspapers that may have caught your clients' attention...

Work out if your adviser is worth the money The Times appears to once again be rubbing financial advisers up the wrong way after this article encourages clients to work out if their adviser is worth the money, asking them to question whether they pay too much to help them pick funds. While the question of assessing how valuable an adviser is not simple, it is one that comes up over and over again. Advisers can help in so many ways, the article says, but it is important to work out the real cost of what the client is paying. The article highlights analysis from Vanguard, which concl...

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