Alan Easter, strategy, product and development director at Honister Capital, has called on advisers to rally around AIFA during the transition to RDR and ignore those who make vocal exits from the trade body.
He said advisers who exit AIFA due to the RDR will be forgotten quickly, and IFAs must work together to tackle the pensions crisis. "People will be making loud exits on the blogs and through the pink sheets," Easter said at the launch of AIFA and Prudential's Financial Planning Through Retirement benchmarking study. "Just ignore them. They are having their 15 minutes of fame, and we will not remember who they are in five years' time." FSA CEO Hector Sants said earlier this week losing up to 30% of IFAs as a result of the RDR was 'acceptable'. Easter said he found those comments ...
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