by Jim Stackpool | Jun 15, 2022 | Advice Clients, Advice is not a Product, Best Interests, Brand Development, Business Planning, Certainty Advice, Conflict of Interest, fakeadvice, Financial Governance, Financial Paths, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Greater Good, Leadership, LIfe Choices, Measures of Success, Public Good, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, Vertical Integration
I love the bush. I reckon it has something to do with my four grandparents being raised in NSW’s central west. It never ceases to amaze me how much I enjoy touring on unmarked open country roads with windows down and the elements whooshing in. Even when...
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 | Aug 26, 2020 | Advice Clients, Best Interests, Business Performance, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Consultative Approach, Covid-19, fakeadvice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Value of Advice
I love flying. Always have. Long flights, short trips, big planes, tiny ones, hang-gliders, choppers. When I was a kid, Dad would sometimes drive out to a small park on the Cooks River which bordered Mascot airport to watch the arrivals and departures. From there you...
by Jim Stackpool | Dec 3, 2018 | fakeadvice, Hayne Royal Commission, Leadership, Professionalism, Royal Commission, Value Proposition
I didn’t hear much about value in the Banking Royal Commission reporting. Pity. Specifically, I didn’t hear much about the value Australians have been seeking in their financial lives from their bankers and advisers. Counsel assisting Mr Hodge QC came close to it when...
