In this time of creation

Tony Vidler | Strictly Business | 31 July 2013

Nobody would dispute that the financial services industry globally is undergoing significant change. It is tectonic-plate type change - globally, the very ground is moving under us.

Radical regulatory overhaul in the UK has ensured that the term "independent adviser" means something very specific in consumers' minds, and that its 100-year old distribution models have been banished at the stroke of a bureaucratic pen. To become a financial planner – as the term is protected in the ...