GOOD ADVICE?

GOOD ADVICE?

What is good advice? Is it cheap advice? Is it easy to implement advice? Is it advice that provides better options? Is it advice that saves time or money? Is it advice from a trusted friend? Is it advice from an algorithm that assumes you aspire, behave and resemble...
The Value is in the Detail

The Value is in the Detail

I used to coach a guy I call Adviser Tony. Nice guy, experienced, founder of a successful advisory firm and well-respected in the advice industry. Tony once told me that when his clients ever squabbled about how they wanted to spend their retirement monies, he...
Dear Minister… fixing our broken advice market

Dear Minister… fixing our broken advice market

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...
High-Net-Worth’s? It’s time for a re-think…

High-Net-Worth’s? It’s time for a re-think…

William Francis Sutton was an American bank robber. When asked why he robbed banks, he allegedly responded: “…because that’s where the money is.” Medicine has used “Sutton’s Law” when training students as a metaphor to...
Advice is more about the complexities in our lives than the goals

Advice is more about the complexities in our lives than the goals

Marketers love a good slogan. Goals-based financial advice is a good example. Advisory firms sometimes differentiate themselves on their goals-based advice capability to understand and identify their advice client’s aspirations. Some institutional advisory...
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