The regulator sent a survey to financial advisers asking about our ‘financial resilience’ through the Covid crisis. Did those who told the FCA they were having, or thought they might have problems expect a helping hand or shoulder to cry on? In the wonderful world of financial services, and to quote Micheal Douglas’s Gordon Gekko in ‘Wall Street’ (sadly now a ‘kids etc’.), ‘If you want a friend, get a dog’.
“Letter of authority: Why now is the right time for change”
This may sound like a non-issue from outside the world-of-financial-advice bubble. It is the bain, however, of the daily working lives of many of us, particularly of those paid by we advisers to do the dirty work of dealing with the many providers with whom we have to work.