VouchedFor’s Top Rated Financial Adviser Guide was released in last week’s copy of The Times. Our Advisers were featured within it’s pages and, in addition, we were also mentioned as a Top Rated firm!
Other small firms to qualify as Top Rated include Philip James Financial Services – which includes two of the most reviewed advisers on VouchedFor, Philip Hanley and Sian MacInnes.
What’s this got to do with financial advice? Well, bear with me. I was a school governor for 15 years, through most of the Blair/Brown years and a bit of Coalition rule and in the heyday introduction of league tables and target-setting for everything.
So what does this say for the 10 years of Pre-Pan, Pre-Boris austerity? Has it done any more than cut public services to the bone, with overstretched, privatised probation services losing track of murderers and 6 hour ambulance waits (87 year old client in December, before the strike, broken arm, not unusual)
In films, the lives of seemingly random characters often coincide, entwine and lead to a (in my favourites, at least) happy ending. So here are some random quotes, facts and stats from my reading this week