Three odd FOS verdicts (and why advisers need to know about them)
Has one IFA's unusual hobby highlighted questionable FOS decisions?
Financial adviser Alan Lakey confesses to a peculiar hobby: scouring Ombudsman decisions to understand its process. Here, he outlines three protection cases with arguable outcomes and urges his peers: make sure you take heed of FOS decisions...
Advice is an elastic process, whereby it is fair to say that if ten advisers are provided with an identical set of client circumstances, they are likely to produce a number of versions of ‘best advice'....
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