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The FCA’s Advice Guidance Boundary Review adds uncertainty rather than removes it, Chet Velani, managing director of Financial Planning fintech EV Financial Solutions has warned.

A quarter of young people aged 18-24 years are unaware of auto-enrolment, despite new proposals being published that will extend the scheme to 18-year-olds. 

The number of retail investment accounts opened in the last three years has slumped to just over a tenth of its peak.

Friday, 08 December 2023 16:20

Editor’s Comment: Blurred lines

Boundaries are essential for all sorts of good reasons. They make things clear to everyone involved what’s the right side of the line and what’s not. Blurred lines are best avoided.

 

St James’s Place - one of the UK’s largest wealth managers with more than 4,700 advisers - has given a cautious welcome to the FCA’s ‘simplified advice’ proposals published today but warned that the boundaries between advice and guidance must remain clear to avoid consumers being mis-sold.