I've got a bit of a man-crush, I’ll admit it. I love Chris Hadfield. There, I've said it. Acclaimed as the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong, the unassuming and likeable…
As a strapping 16 year old lad, my father wanted to 'round out' my education ... He said "I want four holes drilled through this wood, in a straight line,"…
See that yellow ‘safety cap’? It has caused me no end of grief. It’s the bottle cap for the new brand of dishwasher detergent we use. For years I’ve been…
Feeling betrayed by the final episode of Lucifer series 3 (still so cranky), I wandered the internet looking for inspiration. “Learn from the world’s best” took my eye. It’s the…
Simon Sinek, author of ‘Start with Why’, tells a wonderful story about why we don’t see ‘Blockbuster’ stores anymore.For those whose memory needs a shake, or aren’t sufficiently vintaged, Blockbuster…
Yesterday Clayton Daniel, Managing Director of XY Adviser – a community of some 2500 financial planners -- interviewed Daniel Brammall, President of PIFA, to explore the actual pathway that needs…
Your value proposition post-CoronaChina is open for business again. Some 70% of its workforce is now back on the job and, after nearly two months of dead silence, there is…
What you must do to become an ‘essential service’ The health threat of Coronavirus is only one of its threats – the other is the uncertainty and fear to those…
Media Release3 March 2020No Embargo The Profession of Independent Financial Advisers (PIFA) has warned of the risk that consumers will be misled if proposed legislation goes ahead as drafted. In…
As industry associations “circle the drain”[1] and the banks and insurers scramble for the exit, the financial planner ‘casualties of inaction’ are starting to pile up. Research by MLC[2] shows that two…
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