How much is a fair price?

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After my recent column making the connection between bungs in football and adviser remuneration, I w...

After my recent column making the connection between bungs in football and adviser remuneration, I was sent a number of bits of information from advisers about incentives they were being offered by product providers. I use the word incentives because that is a polite way of saying they were legitimate fees on offer to advisers. I'll say it again for the sake of any doubt. I like IFAs and I think independent advice is worth paying a decent price for. But what is that price? Well I'm going to pick on AIG Life this week, because I have been sent something which, to my mind, is suggesting a ...

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