Has QAR tranche 1 been an unqualified success?

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Information for advice professionals only.

The first tranche of reforms from the Quality of Advice Review has passed through Parliament, received Royal Assent, and is now law. But has it been an unqualified success?

Perhaps it depends upon your point of view, but while there are certainly wins for the advice profession, perhaps there are also some lessons to be learned. 

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