A conflict of interest?

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As further evidence of our continued commitment to build the business that our IFAs want to see, we recently saw the first annual Nucleus Strategy Sessions meeting.

A wide-ranging agenda covering issues such as investment tools and processes, client value propositions and the model IFA practice encouraged a lot of active discussion and debate and certainly gave us some strong pointers for the future. I personally found the event hugely interesting and it was brilliant to see a group of like-minded individuals discuss the real issues that will have an impact on their own firms and our collective business in the future. The past few weeks have also seen an increase in commentary about the issue of conflict of interest. One company in particular se...

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