What do advisers do? Maximise returns, protect risks, anticipate complexities, minimise costs, reduce stress, remove distractions, test assumptions, and change client’s long-term habits. Advisers are in the confidence business. They convert a client’s doubts into...
These are interesting times. Interesting is probably an understatement, thanks to regulatory reform, ridiculous compliance guidelines, depleted advice talent, and increasing demands from teams and clients. Advisers don’t need more hassles – particularly...
Pre-covid, a client of mine was approached by one of their clients seeking assistance with a repatriation of business operations of a family member in Barcelona back to Australia. They sought to merge some of their fashion and textiles operations in Spain back to...
Jenna is an adviser in her early thirties. Her technical background is accounting, her personal background is caring She made contact when a good advisory client did not re-engage after only twelve months of working together. While she didn’t expect every client...
What to assume when a good client suddenly goes missing? Trying to arrange needed meetings to finalise new estate plans, a firm’s calls, emails and texts were unanswered. A meeting scheduled for a week back was postponed without a new date being set. The advisory...
