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ARTICLE · 28 SEPTEMBER 2026

The Trust Recession

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In an era where trust in institutions, expertise, and even basic facts seems to be eroding, how do you determine who deserves your confidence when it comes to managing your financial future? This exploration examines the measurable components of trust in financial advisory relationships and challenges readers to evaluate whether their current advisers truly have their best interests at heart.

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Peter Brooke
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My wife, Chris, and I were having one of those meandering conversations recently— when she said something that’s been sitting with me ever since: “Do you think we’re in a trust recession?” She’s right, and once you start looking for it, you can’t stop seeing it.

Politicians treating inconvenient facts as just another opinion to argue with. Long-standing science backed issues dismissed despite the evidence of one climate shock after another. Deadly measles cases back to record levels just as trust in real data and expertise has quietly worn away.

Algorithms that don’t show you the truth, but more of whatever you already believe, until “the world is flat” starts to feel like a reasonable position to the person living inside that feed. None of this is exactly hidden any more. It’s just out in the open, and it’s exhausting.

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