by James Stackpool | Jul 14, 2020 | Client Offerings, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Value Proposition
Would you regard a product recommendation from a Toyota dealer or Apple store as ‘advice’? Do you think bias makes a recommendation less valuable? Do you think it matters? Consider the ‘advice’ members of Australia’s second-largest Superannuation Fund – QSuper – will...
by James Stackpool | Apr 1, 2020 | Advice Clients, Consultative Approach, crisis management, Financial Stress, Leadership, Mindsets, Value Proposition
Health care is being re-defined. Massive innovation, collaboration, education, distribution, awareness, exhaustion. And bravery. Bravery continuing to serve the best health interests of patients, co-workers, community, and own family members while risking their own...
by Jim Stackpool | Feb 9, 2020 | Business Performance, Certainty Advice, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Professionalism, Success Stories, Successful On Purpose, Talent, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
“There’s so much opportunity for financial advisers in today’s market”. Samantha Albiez is Senior Adviser with Bravium, a self-licensed boutique advisory firm in downtown Braddon, Canberra. The firm specialises in SME owners, young families, busy professionals and...
by Jim Stackpool | Jan 14, 2020 | advisers v distributors, Best Interests, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Conflict of Interest, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Mindsets, Value of Advice
Welcome 2020. A new decade for some. Regardless – every new year presents a possible milestone or waypoint for fresh starts. Waypoints are not just for new year’s or decades. They can be stabbed into our lives – such as our devastating bushfire season. Other...
by Jim Stackpool | Oct 30, 2019 | Best Interests, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Competitive pressures, Conflict of Interest, Consultative Approach, Financial Complexity, Future of Financial Advice, Measures of Success, Mindsets, Pricing Advice, Value of Advice
Read Good Walk Spoiled? I reckon it’s a great book. It’s about golf, but really a story about characters. Characters under pressure. That’s golf – either a casual hit or a classic test of character. At the highest levels of the game, the classic tests can be...
by Jim Stackpool | Jul 24, 2019 | Best Interests, Mindsets, Professionalism, Value Proposition, Wealth Management
President Trump resets standards tweet by tweet. Telling four Democratic congresswomen to ‘go back’ to where they came sets new expectations of how the world’s most powerful office deals with a contrary opinion. Last week, new standards of governance were recommended...
