Stop all this mollycoddling

It cannot have escaped your notice that some new EU laws to protect us all against hard sales tactic...

It cannot have escaped your notice that some new EU laws to protect us all against hard sales tactics came in at the beginning of this month. About 20 years too late to stop the hard-sell stormtroopers of such fine organisations as General Portfolio and the MI Group bringing the financial services industry into severe disrepute. That sounded a bit bitter, didn't it? Let's not go on about the past too much, but frankly it was the antics of some of their salespeople that has left the rest of us with a legacy where there is a general mistrust of independent advisers - and they were definit...