Armchair Critic: Why Middle Britain needs advice to go back to basics

Financial services from the consumer's perspective

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When it comes to finances PA's Armchair Critic believes people on average incomes need just as much help as those with a chunk of investable assets. Here he outlines his preferred solution...

The only way to help those on average incomes is for us to stop thinking in terms of financial services and start thinking about broader money issues. That's what Martin Lewis does and the Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR), and anyone else with an interest in these matters needs to do the same. For most people money concerns income, expenditure, borrowing, and savings. The financial services sector and its regulator tend to think only of the last two, yet for most people, income and expenditure are the most important variables. For most, the savings bit is going to be small ...

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