Financial Planners United urges advisers to contact Treasury Select Committee over rising regulatory costs

Over rising costs

Sophie King
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Action group Financial Planners United has encouraged advisers to write to the Treasury Select Committee directly in a bid to tackle the issues of rising regulatory costs.

In an email sent to members last week (11 September) and seen by Professional Adviser, the group, which was set up in an effort to unite and tackle the sector's biggest problems, urged members to contact Treasury Select Committee chairman MP Mel Stride asking him to open an investigation into the rising regulatory costs.  Founding member and Leeds-based Victoria Hicks (pictured) said that by contacting the chairman, advisers will be going "that one step further" instead of going to their local MPs first. A letter template, which was written by Financial Planners United founding member an...

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