by Jim Stackpool | Dec 20, 2023 | Advice is not a Product, advisers v distributors, Conflict of Interest, Delivering Value, Future of Financial Advice, Serve the Greater Good
I spent many Saturday mornings at Harry’s Hardware on Whistler Street in downtown Manly after Anna and I bought our “renovator’s delight” on Manly flat. Harry had an old-style cluttered store when hardware stores used to be as common as...
by Jim Stackpool | May 4, 2023 | Advice is not a Product, advisers v distributors, Conflict of Interest, Corporations Act, Future of Financial Advice, Hayne Royal Commission, Leadership
If plumbers need new pipes, and if the cobbler’s kids need new shoes, does it follow that a lawyer needs new laws? Maybe. Michelle Levy’s three-page plea to the government to adopt her Quality of Advice Review recommendations in this week’s AFR is a...
by Jim Stackpool | Jun 29, 2022 | Advice Clients, Advice Products, advisers v distributors, Best Interests, Brand Development, future of advice, Hayne Royal Commission, Leadership, Measures of Success, Public Good, Quality Advice, Separation of advice from product, Serve the Greater Good, valuable advice, Value of Advice, Value Proposition
Heard about Grameen Bank – the bank for the poor? It presents a powerful working model of trickle-up development. Founded in the mid-1970s by Muhammad Yunus in a country lacking first and second-world finance infrastructures, it has sprouted up in over 80,000...