Coupondering the future

GOSLING'S GROUSE

I did something the other week I have not done for years - I cut out a coupon in a national newspaper for a regular savings scheme.

I must admit the excitement of a decade or so ago coming home and finding another new investment trust or unit trust brochure is long gone, so this was very much opportunist coupon cutting. Anyway, the brochure and forms duly arrived a week or so later, and I promptly started filling out the application forms with the idea of doing the £50-a-month savings scheme. And then it hit: I had to fill in all the nonsense that falls within the remit of Know Your Customer. In this case, it was going to require me copying my passport and getting it witnessed by someone professional. It was fo...