Ever over-eaten? To almost being sick? My mother, Meg, had no sympathy for such a thing. Like sunburn and talking too much, she reckoned you only had yourself to blame. That’s the tricky bit. Realising you are the problem. Similar to the feeling of over-filling an...
I had a coffee with a ‘comparer’ last week. Although busier than ever, he was bewildered by a response from a significant prospect. He had pitched an advice strategy that would have saved the prospect tens of thousands of dollars in the first twelve months...
There’s good success and bad success but all success comes with strings attached. For financial advisers, the biggest challenge with success is increased activity. Not only does success draw in new clients but existing client work typically also increases. The result...
Got a call last week from an old client for whom we did benchmarking work fifteen years ago. His son joined him in business about five years ago. Sensibly at that time, they made the hard decisions required to setup a sustainable foundation for their future making the...
Finding it hard to get to those important but non-urgent projects? Happy with activity, but still hoping it will soon reflect on your bottom-line? Feeling lost as to how others seem to find time that you can’t? Blaming your software, systems, procedures or people for...
The first part of this article (Advice Pricing – Part 1: Pricing Committees and Models) discussed the authority for Pricing Committees, and their core work of developing and maintaining a firm’s pricing models. This second part examines the Pricing Committee’s...
