OK, let me quickly recycle my article from previous years. The cost of regulation’s going up, we (and therefore you, our client) will be paying more for not very much, the same old scams continue and all that’s generated is more paperwork for us all. No need to check, we’ve all been saying the same things for donkeys’. Apparently, a big chunk this time will go towards their plan to regulate crypto-currencies. Not a hope, I’d say, as those involved are far too clever and the only ones who actually understand how bitcoins and the like actually work. But I doubt anyone will have heard my whistle on this very windy day…
“Britain has lost 435 financial advice firms since 2022”
Headline figures, there were over 200,000 financial advisers at the end of the ’90s, there are around 30,000 now and our numbers are continuing to reduce.