Time for IFAs to stop the infighting

IFA Kate Brookes talks RDR, McAdvice and the importance of being earnest.

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IFA Kate Brookes talks RDR, McAdvice and the importance of being earnest.

I have read a lot of opinions and listened to debate about the RDR and the implications it will have for Independent Financial Advice. The debacle concerning qualifications, grandfathering and Hoban's 'Mcadvice' comment all lead to fervent and heated debate amongst IFAs on the internet. In the course of this debate I witnessed some viscous personal attacks, commentators opinions being treated with dismissive derision, ridicule of other's opinions and just down right traded insults. The death of independent financial advice will not be RDR, but the lack of basic skills far more impo...

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