Bamford's blog: Should we respect an adviser's private life?

With Greece in economic meltdown, the general election about to be decided and plenty of other ‘serious' news out there to consider, I can understand why some advisers decided to question the editorial decision to publish an article that looked to be quite trivial. Trivial as it might have appeared, it does prompt an important debate - when does your private life become relevant to your professional life? Much of the debate around the Retail Distribution Review has been on professional standards and what precisely the term professional means. Qualifications have been the headline issue...