Untangling Brexit: Advisers must keep calm and carry on

Business as usual post-Brexit

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How has Brexit affected financial plans across the UK? And what does the financial services sector need to address to minimise any negative repercussions? Sheriar Bradbury has the answers...

To say the stunning vote by the British people to leave the European Union took the markets by surprise is something of an understatement. The graph of the dollar versus sterling shows financial services institutions were betting on a Remain verdict right until the small hours of 24 June.  Whether you called the vote rightly or wrongly, and whether you like the result or not, the job for advisers now is to make financial sense of a very complicated situation, and reboot their clients' portfolios to maximise the opportunities and minimise the risks created by this most extraordinary po...

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