Meet the Adviser Champions: AJ Bell's Mike Morrison

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If he were head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for a day, Mike Morrison would take all the regulator's staff out to talk with real people, he says, and "get them to ask real questions".

As boss of the FCA, the AJ Bell head of platform technical would also ensure the watchdog threw away "all these bits of paper" advisers have to give to clients when they complete a transaction. "Let's start from scratch and see how much we can fit into one piece of paper," he adds.  Morrison is the latest Adviser Champion to appear in Professional Adviser's new series of videos, which has most recently featured Intelliflo's Nick Eatock, Sandringham's Tim Sargisson and TCC's Andy Sutherland. Building on his ideas of what he would do as head of the FCA for 24 hours, Morrison adds that h...

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