Andrew Goodwin: Five steps towards advice for everyone

Long-term hopes for financial advice

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Andrew Goodwin sets out five steps the advice profession might take to improve millions of lives...

Truly Independent's wonderful managing director, Katie Brinsden, recently featured among a select group of experts who were invited to outline their long-term hopes for the advice industry. I didn't get the memo, as they say. Naturally, anyone handed such a task is likely to err on the side of optimism. Nobody is going to declare, for example, that they sincerely hope the industry will spectacularly collapse and leave all concerned out of work. Despite this inherent bias towards positivity, such exercises are more than worthwhile. After all, it's always interesting to hear your peers'...

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