Ninety days in power: What have the Tories done to financial services?

In the week the government launched a major review of the financial advice market, Professional Adviser looks at the impact the Tories have had on the sector in their first 90 days in power...

Laura Miller
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Politicians' gaze seems fixed on financial services of late. In the week the government launched a major review of the financial advice market, Professional Adviser looks at the impact the Tories have had on the sector in their first 90 days in power...

    Ros Altmann named pension minister (11 May) Flush from their election victory on 8 May, within three days the Tories hit financial services with the appointment of Ros Altmann as pension minister. Altmann was not an MP but the Conservatives will nominate her for a peerage so she can become a Cabinet minister. She has described herself as an "independent policy expert and older workers champion", but by training she is a City banker, who became an analyst, who became an economist, working at Natwest, Rothschild Asset Management and Chase Manhattan Bank. Altmann is a keen a...

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