Talkback: Should journalists have to be qualified?

For as long as I can remember, advisers have been saying that personal finance journalists should ha...

For as long as I can remember, advisers have been saying that personal finance journalists should have to be pass exams to write about the subject. Why? It’s not our job to advise members of the public on what to do with their money, it’s our job to write about people who do. It’s a different skill. Clearly, there is a difference between journalists working on the Mail on Sunday and journalists working on Investment Week. All Investment Week’s journalists have passed a number of the same qualifications that advisers have to take, and they are writing for professionals, while only one ...