A new survey from Hargreaves Lansdown has revealed that investor confidence is at its lowest for 23 years.  

All too often, our profession deserves its reputation as the home of grey men wearing navy blue suits. Go along to more or less any conference, seminar or professional body event and you are confronted by a lack of diversity along with the absence of anything especially exciting or progressive.

Brexit fears have knocked confidence within the financial services sector where sentiment deteriorated in the three months to September, according to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey.