Liversidge v Lewis: The full correspondence

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BBC journalist Paul Lewis and IFA Neil Liversidge have been having an interesting conversation about trail commission over the last few days...

Below is the entire correspondence: From: Neil Liversidge To Paul Lewis, Money Box, BBC Radio 4 Dear Paul, In today's Money Box you referred to trail commission as ‘one of the industry's best kept secrets'. My clients will certainly not recognise that description though because what they pay is spelled out to them in the client agreement documents we provide. They know precisely what they pay and what they get in return. Given that the bulk of our business comes by referral from existing happy clients they seem to be very happy with the deal. In addition to those benefits we co...

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