Why advisers should think differently about equity release

RTBQ. Four letters to live by.

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When it comes to equity release the most obvious outcome isn't always the only option. Stuart Wilson talks guaranteed inheritance features...

RTBQ. Believe it or not, that is one of the best pieces of advice I have ever been given. Seriously. It may look like a really unlucky set of Scrabble letters, but, in fact, it is a valuable life lesson that has stuck with me for more than 20 years. It was given to me by a former sales manager of mine as we reviewed why I had failed to pass an industry exam. It turned out, as we came to a particular question on the actual paper I had sat, that I had leapt ahead to provide a clever answer to what was, in fact, a slightly different question to the one being posed. "R - T - B - Q" my ...

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