by Jim Stackpool | Mar 3, 2021 | Advice Clients, Best Interests, Client Care, Client Offerings, Consultative Approach, Financial Complexity, Ongoing Relationships, value, Value Proposition
Marketers love a good slogan. Goals-based financial advice is a good example. Advisory firms sometimes differentiate themselves on their goals-based advice capability to understand and identify their advice client’s aspirations. Some institutional advisory...
by Jim Stackpool | Jan 30, 2020 | Advice Clients, Certainty Advice, Client Offerings, Future of Financial Advice, Hayne Royal Commission, language, Pricing Advice, Royal Commission, Value Proposition
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...
by Jim Stackpool | Sep 22, 2014 | Advice Clients, Consultative Approach, Future of Financial Advice, Leadership, Professionalism, Value Proposition
Is your advice firm striving to crack the ‘High Net Worth’ market – i.e. rich people? It’s not getting a bit ‘old-fashioned’ for advice firms is it? I suppose if you use other people’s money to make your money, the high net worth client is a logical focus. Similar to...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 2, 2014 | Advice Clients, Client Offerings, Consultative Approach, Leadership, Mindsets, Value Proposition
Why do your advice clients engage? For greater returns or greater certainty? I was reminded of this question looking at Google’s headlines last week with their ‘driver-less’ car? Did you see them? Google are making big promises about “changing our world” – what do you...
by Jim Stackpool | Feb 22, 2013 | Financial Complexity, Professionalism, Value Proposition
To my mind, professionalism was best defined by Robert MC Brown – a unique champion of APES230, amongst other causes. Robert has said on many occasions that professionalism is acting in a manner that firstly respects the greater good of the general public, then the...
