Aileen Lynch: Daring to be different - the evolution of 'non-mainstream'

As you will be aware, since the implementation of the Retail Distribution Review, it has been a requirement for firms and advisers who refer to themselves as independent to demonstrate they have taken an unbiased and unrestricted view of the relevant market before making a client recommendation. For many advisers, this means they are having to find ways to increase their knowledge on a range of products and investments that may be reasonably new to them. We are in the process of running a series of non-mainstream events for our client firms and, at this halfway point, I thought it wou...