Mike Webb: Smaller investment pots need be no barrier to DFM
Shift in attitude
While advisers are increasingly accepting factors such as cost and potential loss of control are not the barriers to using a DFM they might have thought, says Mike Webb, one major misunderstanding persists
Among the principal barriers to adopting a discretionary fund manager (DFM) cited by financial advisers, it is the cost, the potential loss of control and the inability to justify their own fee to clients...
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