2nd February 2013, 01:34 PM
Martin Locock Wrote:...I welcome councils signing up to an externally-defined code of practice rather than being free to act however arbitrarily they choose.
No problem with the concept of a Code of Practice, just not one which appears to promote the commercial interests of other members of the same organisation to which they're paying subs to....
In general I've got no grouse with the content of the IFA standards, the general principles appear excellent, its the harping on about ROs and MIFAs without pointing out that there are equally competent contractors without such baggage. Luckily the curators we usually deal with aren't so blinkered, and work on the quality of work they see, phew!