Shifting sands: Advisers well equipped for constant change

‘We will see a tightening of belts for the whole financial services chain’

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Change is inevitable – nothing in life stands still. Carl Lamb asks if the financial advice community should embrace change or resist it...

We are living in a time when many of the consistencies of recent years have been swept aside.  We can blame both domestic and global events - Brexit, Covid, government upheaval at home and wars overseas - but the fact is that the parameters of our lives have significantly shifted of late. As a result of these events, we're seeing dramatic rises in the cost of living and more expensive borrowing. Mainstream investment portfolios are struggling to keep pace with inflation and house prices are rocketing.  This is a whole new world for both Generation X and Millennials who've experienced ...

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