Game, set and match for independence?

As depolarisation looms, advisers and networks face critical issues that could shape the future of financial services

Reminiscing with a colleague the other day, I realised just what our industry is facing. We were talking about tennis and, specifically, what he thought blocked his professional tennis career. He described how he learned to play the game with a traditional wooden racquet, spending laborious hours practising his forehand and backhand, serving and volleying, perfecting all the fundamentals. Except, while he was mastering those fundamentals, other players were discovering new methods of play. While he was knocking balls against a brick wall, his competitors were taking advantage of new techn...