Keith Churchouse: Happy New Regulation

A new decade begins

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In the first of a series of monthly columns for Professional Adviser, Keith Churchouse welcomes in the new year, and decade, with a run down of the regulatory changes advisers have dealt with over the past 10 years

The new decade has started. With so much political noise and media commentary in 2019, it was easy to forget that we were all about to move into a new decade. And are you optimistic for this new era? I hope so, because there is much value to offer our clients and prospects over the next year through our varying propositions. To look forward, there can be benefit in looking back. The decade between 2010 and the end of 2019 was momentous for many reasons, not least the amount of regulation and new acronyms that came through. It reminds me of pensions ‘A Day' and the plan for pensions ‘s...

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