The “Financial Carer” Good doctors tend to focus on preventing disease as much as treating it. This means understanding the patient as well as the diseases that might (or might not) be afflicting them. Similar too for financial advisers. The clients who will pay for a...
The Specialist When the going gets complex, everyone seeks out the specialist. Whether for our cars, our health, our relationships, our special morning coffee or our next choice of fly-fishing rods. Specialists make the really complex stuff simple. Like the knee...
In the old days of financial planning a few of the ‘rock stars’ headlining the conferences relating ‘how to be great’ were natural rapport builders. Their reputation and presentations stank of personality traits and habits to ‘get clients to like you’ and then they’ll...
The Opt-In requirement contained in the proposed Future of Financial Advice legislation is fundamental to elevating the status of the current financial services industry into the profession Australians deserve. The current situation where opt-in is the default option,...
You might be considered a tad strange if you wanted to see the surgeon’s scalpel before selecting her as the one to get your dicky knee working again. Why then do we do this when positioning our financial advice? Matt, a great young adviser from Perth, said to me last...