Lessons from Succession: Unlocking generational wealth

What advisers can learn from the Roy family...

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Simon Rogerson draws parallels between the advisory sector and hit US show Succession in the first of a series of articles for Professional Adviser…

The average streaming service user watched more than three hours of content every single day during lockdown (up from two hours per day pre-Covid). With a combined 2.2 million minutes of content on Netflix alone, you could sit in your room and watch whatever your heart desired continuously for more than four years. Like another 275 million people, I also have Netflix. But when I do turn it on, I scroll down all the content and quickly conclude that in spite of the 2.2 million minutes available on that particular service, there is ‘literally nothing worth watching'. But other stream...

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