What is the advice risk?
You could be forgiven for keeping your head down, servicing clients and paying the bills. And frankly, we all need to be doing that.
However, much of the recent market noise about dealer groups, FAPs and bank aggregation has raised more than a few comments that included statements about advice risk.
Now, most of us appreciate that there is a risk to running an advisory business. If what we say and recommend turns to custard, we expect to be facing some interesting questions.
And for the majority of us, the general...MORE»
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