In February, the Society of Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) held their first conference called ‘The Value of Advice.' Joint chair Tish Hanifan talks to Fiona Murphy about long term care advice and the impact of the forthcoming care cap
Can you tell me about your recent conference, The Value of Advice? The reason we did the conference was the time was right for SOLLA in terms of development. With RDR and the issues around advice and information in the draft care and support bill, the two collided at a very good time. With RDR people are being asked to pay for advice, and I know people have always paid for advice but there is now transparency. It comes much higher up the agenda to ask: what is the value of advice. We discussed what the benefit would be to use a really good financial adviser and really transform the ex...
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