Accumulating evidence suggests that the old financial planning industry (OldCo) is entering its death phase. Effects on advisers and their business plans will be profound. There is no single emerging trend, no single piece of legislation. Just a mounting pile of...
Asking clients to opt-in every year in an advice relationship is one of the recommendations of the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms. The advice professions of law, medicine, dentistry, accounting, engineering, and computing have long embraced the concept of...
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...
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...