This must fall firmly into the ‘nice work if you can get it’ category in anyone’s book. There was an unsurprising follow-up trade-press story, ‘Jupiter reviews fees after fund managers pocket £60m’. I should think so too! We should be bothered if we are at all concerned about the image of our industry, as in public perception these will be seen as just more ‘bankers’ bonuses’. It’s another reason to think that nothing has changed in the ten years since the crash. Can this really be justified? It’s not as if they’re Premiership footballers, for goodness sake…
“Worry for profession as young adviser numbers plummet”
There are around 31,000 advisers currently authorised by the FCA to give advice. Of these only around 6% are under 30 and 84% of all advisers are male. There are 209,000 solicitors, 7,000 young ones enter the profession each year and 52% of all solicitors are now female.
