STEPHEN CRANSTON: Bill me by the hour
Independent financial advisers need to do a lot more to earn 1% of their clients’ assets in perpetuity
16 September 2021 - 05:00
You might hate their advertising but Auto & General and its more recent clones such as Outsurance and King Price have confounded the sceptics.
Conventional wisdom for years was that you needed brokers taking clients out for long lunches to sell insurance. Surely nobody would listen to barking voices on television? Yet the personal lines broker is now, if not quite extinct, confined to certain niches...
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