by Jim Stackpool | Jul 20, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, advisers v distributors, Financial Paths, Hayne Royal Commission, Public Good, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, Value of Advice, Value Proposition, Vertical Integration
I love trekking. I used to regard anyone walking with poles as a tad too keen. Now I’m one of those pole people. It is not just the poles. I’m discovering all sorts of great, weird stuff. For instance, I don’t know what it is, but I find the combination of conversing...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 29, 2022 | Advice Clients, Advice Products, advisers v distributors, Best Interests, Brand Development, future of advice, Hayne Royal Commission, Leadership, Measures of Success, Public Good, Quality Advice, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
Heard about Grameen Bank – the bank for the poor? It presents a powerful working model of trickle-up development. Founded in the mid-1970s by Muhammad Yunus in a country lacking first and second-world finance infrastructures, it has sprouted up in over 80,000...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 9, 2022 | Advice is not a Product, ASIC, Complexity, Financial Complexity, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Mindsets, Quality Advice, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, value, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
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...
by Jim Stackpool | May 25, 2022 | Future of Financial Advice, Ideal Advice Client, Mindsets, Pricing Advice, Profitability, Quality Advice, Royal Commission, valuable advice, Valuations, value, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
During a pricing workshop last month at the Affinia conference on Hamilton Island (is that place the world capital for golf carts?), an adviser shared a fee problem. An aged care expert in his team could not reconcile charging an advice fee equivalent to the price of...
by Jim Stackpool | May 17, 2022 | Advice Clients, Financial Complexity, Financial Paths, future of advice, Future of Financial Advice, Greater Good, Leadership, Mindsets, Releasing Clients, Serve the Greater Good, Uncertainty, Value Proposition
I love planes. I firstly obtained a gliders license in an old Blanik soaring above Narromine in 1980. I qualified for my private fixed-wing pilot license in 1984 at Camden airport when paddocks and chicken sheds still surrounded it, and later a commercial helicopter...
by Jim Stackpool | May 11, 2022 | advisers v distributors, Best Interests, Certainty Advice, client conversations, Leadership, Ongoing Relationships, Planning, Priorities, Royal Commission, Uncategorized, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
Seen the Red Bull ‘gives you wings’ ads? Whether you like the drink or not, Red Bull’s advertising clearly aims to inspire people to achieve more in their lives. A similar message for financial advice. ACHIEVE MORE Valuable advice provides clients...