Is it just me, or is this complete marketing twoddle? The reason less women take financial advice could be that a) 90% of advisers (my estimate from many years of attending adviser events) are male and, b) without unduly disrespecting my colleagues’ or overestimating my own powers of communication, the proportion who can communicate effectively with the opposite sex is representative of a) the rest of the male population and b) the number of marriages which end in divorce. We need more lady advisers just as much as we need more advisers under the age of 50. And the two needs are not mutually exclusive.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
