Borderline financial advice: Regulators are redrawing map (again)

Borderline financial advice: Regulators are redrawing map (again)
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David Chaplin
The border zone between regulated financial advice and disclaimed helpful suggestion has never been well-mapped, even by Google.And ever since “financial advice” was a thing – I’m going to say from the 1980s – the official boundary between policed activity and non-legislated chit-chat has moved back and forth between the extremes according to the general vibe.Typically, the regulatory vibe-o-meter swings hard to draconian in the wake of a major financial product mis-selling scandal before drifting to relaxed as the...

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