Armchair Critic: The opportunities in adviser firms' Covid-19 exit strategies

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In this piece, PA's Armchair Critic Brendan Llewellyn takes a look at all the opportunities financial advisers have to make their businesses more efficient when the UK exits lockdown

Calls for a national exit strategy prompt me to consider possible strategies for individuals and their businesses. But first, the purpose of any strategy is to support your objectives. But does the personal and business experience you are going through cause you to re-think these objectives and the kinds of strategies and plans that might be more likely to achieve them once we are unlocked? And can they move around and interact without concern? Relationship management as reputation management There's an important question we need to ask ourselves for now - whatever our role and whatev...

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