Advice 2036: The decade we finally fixed the plumbing

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Rory McLaren hops in his time machine to 2036 and reflects on what the advice profession got right in 2026...

The results of Dynamic Planner's Advice 2036 survey arrived this morning and, in a fit of nostalgia, I used my artificial intelligence assistant to find the 2026 edition. It found it in under a second, auto-summarised it and it asked me if I also wanted it as a podcast. I said no thanks, I'd read it the old-fashioned way. Some of us are still sentimental about the written word. Reading it back, what strikes me is how clearly the next decade was sitting there in the data, if you knew where to look. The revolution was already underway Advice 2025 found that fewer than a third of firms...

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