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There is no escaping the row over whether execution-only sales treat customers fairly. The issue has...

There is no escaping the row over whether execution-only sales treat customers fairly. The issue has become something of a national debate, not to mention a bone of contention within the IFA community. They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, but I wouldn’t want to bump into an IFA down a dark alley if I was a regulator or a retail seller of life assurance. There are a lot of irate IFAs out there and the drowning level of red tape and regulation is doing nothing to calm rising tempers. It seems all IFAs want is a bit of support, something which they feel they are not getting f...

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