Laura Suter: Addressing financial advisers' millennial dilemma

A financial adviser wishlist

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Much as she might dislike the label, Laura Suter is a millennial and that means her expectations of a financial adviser are going to be significantly different to those of her parents

At some point I am going to need a financial adviser. Sadly, my wealth is too small to trouble the door of most at the moment but I would plan to in the future - both for tax-planning help and also because, like doctors making the worst patients, those who drone on about finance all day are usually the worst at organising their own financial affairs. And I am no exception. As a millennial, however - and as much as I begrudge being included in the group - my expectations of a financial adviser will be different to those of my parents. I cannot remember the last time I went into a bank bra...

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