What do the behaviours of Melissa Caddick, Bernie Madoff, and Sam Henderson have in common? Greed. Justice Kenneth Hayne used the same word when tabling the final report of his Royal Commission into the Banking and Financial Services industries in February 2019....
Read the latest October 2020 Guidelines for FASEA? I initially expected these guidelines might provide the “rail lines” for advisory firms to align their growth. Thanks to an extraordinary 2020, advisory firms are seeking as much probability and clarity as...
Congratulations to the recently announced Top 100 Financial Advisers for 2020. After exhaustive research and analysis by The Australian and Barrons, this list of talent represent the best in Australia. They deserve their accolades as do all high achievers and leaders...
Covid-19 means different things to different advisory firms. I believe this pandemic has identified at least four different types of firms. So far, at least. First, there are the “plodders”. Plodders These are ‘steady’ firms. They didn’t...
People don’t want more choices – they want to be more confident in the choices they make. Read NYU’s Professor Galloway’s musings? Easy read, makes sense, consistently clarifies some things for me. I’m presenting a model of advice in this blog. It’s for clients and...
When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection. Daniel...
