Brad Cooper – chief executive of Australia’s BT Financial Group (a division of Westpac Bank) provided insightful observations in the Australian Financial Review last week regarding shifts in the UK financial advice market and potential implications for our market here...
Ready? Are we ever ready for new things? In retrospect, don’t all of our attempts at new things suck initially? Were you ready for your first child? Were you ready for your first ever client? Were you ready for your first ever employee? Were you ready for the...
Financial uncertainty is thriving. Thriving, almost out of control it seems, unlike any period in our current generation. It’s largely due to the lack of leadership. It’s tricky being a leaders when things are uncertain. Whilst we can have little effect on the...
What would your financial advice business look like without it’s on-going revenue? Can you remember back before mid-1990’s when most revenue in financial services was up-front? Can you remember what that was like? Could you and your business go back there (and would...
Want to make money next year? Here’s a thought – change your ‘client review meetings’ to ‘client re-discovery meetings’. Make it an aim for the clients to have a ‘discovery’ during their next annual client re-discovery meeting. Why? Because it will engage your clients...