Editor's view: Financial advice stops for no summer break

The editor's Friday Night Takeaway from 1 August

Jen Frost
clock • 3 min read

The kids may be out, but financial advice news stops for no summer break.

Neither do many of you, apparently. We polled advisers and other industry types earlier in July to find out whether you keep in touch with your clients when you head off for a holiday. While more than half (53%) said they do not, a not insignificant 47% said they do keep up with clients in some shape or form. That could mean fielding urgent enquiries only or keeping an eye on Whatsapp, but others said they are always available 24/7. Clients are "becoming more needy", one survey taker said. An increasingly connected world has driven a change in contact expectations, and we see th...

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