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Risk profile mismatch exposes ‘blind spot’ in wealth management suitability

By Jack Gray

28/5/26

More than half (55 per cent) of investors have a higher ‘suitable risk level’ than their ‘attitude to risk’ alone would indicate, exposing a “critical blind spot” in wealth management suitability, according to Oxford Risk

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