Mark Loosmore: Why it pays to plan ahead

Reassurance plus efficiency

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For advisers looking to the future, warns Mark Loosmore, it would be easy to fall into the trap of offering an advice service that ticks all the right boxes but where neither the digital nor the human element is of the required quality

In early 2009, I signed up for a social media service that looked innovative and promising but which few of my friends had on their radar. I felt like an early adopter, even though it had launched three years earlier. Scroll forward to the current day and it seems everyone I know is on Twitter, sharing news, views and lots of dog pictures. In fact, for many, particularly those a good few years younger than myself, Twitter is already old hat. For me, Twitter is where I go to for breaking news and real-time reaction from influencers. And the dogs. Let's not forget the dogs. Twitter is a...

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