by Jim Stackpool | Jun 9, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, ASIC, Complexity, Financial Complexity, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Mindsets, Quality Advice, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, value, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
Dear Minister Jones, Congratulations on your appointment as Minister for financial services. I read your early plans with both hope and trepidation about your priority to address the hot mess that is the Australian advice marketplace. I understand the weight behind...
by Jim Stackpool | Apr 12, 2022 | ASIC, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Corporations Act, fakeadvice, Financial Services and Credit Panel, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Public Good, valuable advice
Back in the late 1800s, sea passage had its perils. Unfortunately, some of the worse were man-made and systemic to the business of delivering cargo worldwide. The over-insured and over-loaded ‘Coffin Ships’ provided a rewarding alternative for villainous...
by Jim Stackpool | Jul 28, 2021 | ASIC, DPP, Regulations, Regulators
The plagued 2020 Tokyo Olympics started last Friday. A year late, 11,000 athletes, no spectators, and the country’s daily Covid-19 cases rising daily. Russia is not competing. The country is banned by the sport’s regulator – the World Anti-Doping...