Carl Lamb: Pressurised advisers need regulatory clarity in 2020

'Advice is timely'

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Chartered financial planner Carl Lamb takes a look at the year ahead and wonders if the financial advice sector can begin to grow in confidence

As we start the New Year, it would be nice to feel that we are entering a period of more stability in the UK. At the time of writing, Brexit is on the cards for the end of January, the government is gearing up to present a financial programme that it knows it can deliver now that it has a majority in the House of Commons - so everything in the financial garden is going to be rosy. Or is it? We're still seeing many challenges to stability in the financial advice sector. External pressures such as tensions in the Middle East are always going to affect key market metrics such as the oil ...

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