Gosling's Grouse - Still working in a land of confusion

Apparently, it is 20 years since I got into financial services journalism. I only know that because a PR reminded me! Actually, it is not something I have been trying to forget, but it does make you wonder where the past 20 years have gone.

To people who do not work in financial markets and, in particular, the personal finance part of the industry, I often describe it as an industry where nothing really changes but at the same time it never stays the same. If that is not a tautology, I don’t know what is. I joined Financial Adviser magazine in September 1989, the 5th to be exact, and found myself plunged into a world of depolarisation and 20 years later the argument is still the same. This time it is RDR – which is the kind of pseudo-management speak that bedevils so much these days. RDR boils down quite simply to: wh...