Plagiarism accusations and SIPP uncertainty... It's The Pro Adviser Podcast

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Professional Adviser has stuck to last week's promise and published another weekly episode of The Pro Adviser Podcast.

In this latest edition of PA's podcast, editor Tom Ellis and news editor Hannah Godfrey discuss the ongoing confusion over the due diligence requirements of self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers and one company's potential plagiarism. On Thursday morning (10 October), PA brought you the story of an Aberdeen-based unregulated firm that claimed to be "one of the biggest asset managers in the world". It has appeared the firm was using text plagiarised from financial adviser firm Alan Steel Asset Management, among others. In today's podcast, Ellis and Godfrey talk of the tall ta...

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