UK adviser reforms drive out 9,400 advisersBY ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013 12:25PMThe UK's Retail Distribution Review and its push to increase the professionalism of their adviser force has already lead to a 23% fall in the number of financial advisers. |
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Liz McCarthy has spent her whole life on the move, which has taught her invaluable lessons about life, work and always moving forward. Eliza Bavin writes.
Not good news, it's going the same way here too. Might be time to sell up soon, go on welfare and go fishing. Of course a change of Federal Government will help to keep us going a bit longer.