On your marks: Your six-point guide to RDR readiness

Julie Hepworth, group regulatory manager at Perspective Financial Group, reveals her eight step plan to get your business RDR-ready by the December 2012 deadline.

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Julie Hepworth, group regulatory manager at Perspective Financial Group, reveals her eight step plan to get your business RDR-ready by the December 2012 deadline.

As the clock struck midnight on 31 December 2011, no doubt most of you will have raised a glass, sung a verse of ‘Auld Lang Syne' and perhaps made a New Year's resolution or two. I learnt a long time ago to only make resolutions that I had every intention of keeping so as not to feel disappointed later in year. This year however is different. Putting the traditional dieting, drinking less, stopping smoking and taking more exercise to one side for a moment (not my own resolutions I hasten to add), the real, over-arching business focused-resolution has to be on, ‘What do I need to do di...

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