I’ve been telling as many advisers I can that 2010 has to be about the peak of business valuations for most of today’s financial planning businesses. Therefore, these have to be the best of times to consider selling, particularly inactive financial planning client...
Good painters don’t paint on top of previously painted, cracked, chipped, well-worn exteriors without first preparing the surfaces. Dodgy renovators, when their work is not subject to close inspection, can easily deceive their clients with their fresh and shiny...
80% of the fee for service models within Australian financial planning firms won’t work in three years time. In their quest to get “legislation-ready” for Monday 2nd July 2012, most planning firms are not thinking through their hastily implemented fee for service...
Imagine it’s Monday, July 2nd, 2012 – the first working day of Chris Bowen’s proposed changes for financial planners. What’s different from today? I’m betting the biggest change won’t be that obvious. The same financial planning brand names may be around, but...
Implementing a fee for service proposition for your financial planning business without addressing the fundamental issue of adding real value for your clients is akin to getting dressed up as a mighty Sydney Swans player and thinking you’re therefore entitled to play...