Natalie Holt: We need to talk about 'falling into' advice

Natalie Holt: We need to talk about 'falling into' advice

When I hear people talk about “falling into advice”, it tends to make me flinch a bit. It’s true that advice professionals may well land in their current role by accident. Maybe the starting point was a random job application at a provider or bank, which then turned into a role at an advice firm or starting up on their own. And ‘financial adviser’ or ‘financial planner’ won’t feature when kids are dreaming about what they want to be when they gr…