Why the RDR will work for IFAs

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The biggest news of the last week or so, aside from the recent tax tinkering from the chancellor that is, has been the arrival of the FSA's latest thoughts on the RDR.

When the first paper was published I felt that all we were seeing was the team at Canary Wharf seeking to place a regulatory framework around a series of market changes that were already occurring. Although some of the detail has now changed I stand by my original assessment and, market issues notwithstanding, I don't see any reason why high quality IFAs cannot have an excellent and prosperous future within the new regulatory proposals. One area that I feel the regulator has gone further than we at Nucleus anticipated they would (or could) is in clearly signalling their desire to break ...

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