Blog: Does the RDR even matter?

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Maybe the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) does not really matter at all.

Perhaps everyone in the financial services sector and the accompanying industry of media commentators has got completely the wrong end of the stick. Maybe RDR is just one of those moderately important but far-from-seismic events that does not really make that much of a difference to anyone. This slightly alarming conclusion is, in part, based on a slow accumulation of discussions with advisers. Obviously there is much jockeying for position and a lot of strategic reviews going on among the major players. Equally, there is an awful lot of bad feeling out there in adviserland, target...

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