Mark Loosmore: Let's face the music and dance

Advice must be ‘omni-channel’

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When you buy music, you expect the quality and the service to be consistently good, whichever format you use, says Mark Loosmore - and the same applies to the services offered by advisers

As a self-confessed technophile and a fan of new gadgets, I have fully embraced each and every new way of listening to and owning music as it has emerged. That is not to say I exclusively use every new trend and ditch the previous one though. I still own vinyl records, I have a lot of CDs, my phone is packed full of digital songs and I often listen to music through a monthly subscription to Spotify. I am a voracious consumer of music through different channels. I love the fact we have so many choices available. The band Elbow were recently on the TV, plugging their new album release a...

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