What’s on financial advisers’ wish lists for 2021? Last year was a learning curve but this year is about ‘building the future of advice’ The financial advice industry was hit hard throughout 2020. Businesses had to adapt to the “new normal” overnight, and quickly rejig budgets to cope with the financial strain of the pandemic. The Financial Conduct Authority recently released the first of its Covid-19 surveys and found 4,000 firms that are at heightened risk of failure. “These are predominantly small and medium-sized firms, and approximately 30% have the potential to cause harm in failure,” the UK regulator said. But 2021 is a new year and there is a faint light at the end of the tunnel for the world to come out of the bleak lockdowns via vaccination.