Tackling TCF shouldn't be difficult

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Aside from starting to build the Nucleus business and checking out Emily Perryman's latest beer unit count, the main areas of interest in my regular IFAonline blog are likely to now be just the regulatory approach to wrap and the evolving thoughts of IFAs on the subject.

While it is fair to say that the regulator’s comments on wrap indicate a 'business as usual' approach is likely to be adopted for at least the next year or so, I am fascinated to see how the key issue of TCF is dealt with over the coming months. It seems to me that for TCF to be taken to its natural and logical conclusion in the context of wrap it is essential that commitment to transparency becomes absolute rather than what we see in the market today. I tend to take a simplistic view that it is either possible to see through something or it isn’t? After all, while many of us may be wil...

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