by Jim Stackpool | Nov 3, 2021 | Advice Clients, Advice is not a Product, best practice, Engagements, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership
“Advisers often use value as a drunk uses a lamppost — for support rather than illumination” paraphrasing poet A.E. Housman What is the value of advice? It depends on whom advisers are serving – themselves or their clients? The client’s common...
by Jim Stackpool | Oct 21, 2021 | Advice is not a Product, Delivering Value, FSC, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Hayne Royal Commission, Mindsets, Professionalism, Regulators, Royal Commission, Separation of advice from product, Value of Advice
On Thursday, 7th February 2017, Scott Morrison, then Federal Treasurer, started question time in our parliament holding a piece of coal aloft. It was a pre-election stunt to draw attention to his Government’s commitment to Australia’s coal mining sector....
by Jim Stackpool | Oct 5, 2021 | Advice Clients, Advice is not a Product, advisers v distributors, Growth Stress, Leadership, Measures of Success, Pricing Advice, Professionalism, Public Good, Successful On Purpose
One of my favourite books is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. The following is from the book’s introduction… “As we navigate our lives, we normally allow ourselves to be guided by impressions and feelings, and the confidence we have in our...
by Jim Stackpool | Aug 4, 2021 | Advice is not a Product, Financial data specialists, Separation of advice from product, Uncategorized
The Yir-Yoront were a nomadic mob of Australian Aborigines settled around the mouth of the Coleman River on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York. When missionaries settled on the nearby Mitchell River in the early 1900s, the Yir-Yoront people were forever changed....
