A senior adviser to one of the likely candidates, asked what he would do now, sighed and responded, "I'm going to go have another beer."

In the weeks since then, many financial advisers have asked whether the insolvency is an isolated event or whether other insurers are also at risk.

Our resident adviser asked us to sit around in a circle and introduce ourselves.

It is a term his advisers reportedly asked him not to mention.

Then an adviser asked whether the fair might be moved from a county building.

Stranger still was that the adviser had asked for just that kind of information recently.

"Our financial advisers have asked for a different video feed on their desktops."

A person familiar with the discussions said the advisers were asking Whitehall for more particulars about its proposal.

In the article, a financial adviser asked why anyone would want to put money into "something that depends on increasing cigarette consumption."

Your adviser may sometimes ask them to make an opening or indicative offer before they meet you.