Sunset clause: Don't forget about the 'Dickensian' orphans

Charles Dickens meets the sunset clause

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Ben Hammond shares his views on the fast-approaching sunset clause, famous orphans and the great works of Charles Dickens…

I've just finished watching ‘Dickensian' on the Beeb and spent most of the series slowly ticking off the characters I was expecting to see: Scrooge, check; Fagin, check; Miss Havisham, check; Tiny Tim Cratchit, check… but wait a minute, what's happened to Oliver?  He got left almost to the end, but finally the orphan popped up to be counted (and ask for more, please).   In the world of financial services, orphans (customers who are cut loose from an adviser or platform) also seem to be drawing the short straw when it comes to their relationship with whoever it was who sold them their inv...

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