A request for 'advice' during a wedding party? Life planning, in real life

Life planning is ‘not always done over whisky and cigars’

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What is your favourite part of a wedding? The dress? The food? The first dance? Justin Cash asks if it’s the financial planning…

Next time you are multiple bottles of wine down, suit dripping with sweat, tucking into late night whiskey and cigars, just ask your mates a few questions about their adviser. You might just stumble across one of the best illustrations of the value of life planning you could ever have hoped for. This particular wedding was a classic of the genre. Honestly, I was having the time of my life. Until, at silly o'clock, the best man approached me saying that he had heard what I do for a living, and asked if he could borrow me for some ‘advice'. I'm sure every adviser reading this has encoun...

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