Respected industry contributor, Elixir Consulting founder, Sue Viskovic, offers a future pathway to success for risk advisers that she says can and does work. This pathway articulates a risk advice business model that embraces a combination of both fees and commissions… There are roughly three months...
A few thoughts here if you've been thinking of moving your fee model away from asset-based fees. We had a giggle in the office about this one...
During a busy week in the East Coast I reflected here on the habit of many advisers of undervaluing themselves...
Lots of things to consider here, be it logistics or a bigger issue of whether clients see enough value in your proposition to re-sign every 12 months. Here's some advice that helped one adviser who was struggling with this...
Are you in the habit of collecting all of your fees from clients' Super funds? With greater scrutiny on the sole purpose test, you'll be wanting to rethink this for each client...
This is a question that that’s been a consistent cause for advisers to reach out to us lately. We’re entering a time where there's no “passive income” from advice clients anymore. Every dollar you earn must have a corresponding service delivered in return, and that...
I originally posted this article in Feb 2019 and it's even more relevant now in October 2019, as the ban on Grandfathered commissions has just been legislated. Whilst our original thinking was that you had until the 1st January 2021 to replace or transition this income to fees,...
If you’re only reading news articles and social media commentary because you don’t have time to read the full 530 pages of Mr Hayne’s report from the Royal Commission, you’re not alone… But this may be adding unnecessary stress, causing you to worry about things without...
Many advisers are concerned that the Life Insurance Framework will damage their business by reducing their income and driving up the cost of life insurance. I wrote this article for specialist risk advisers in Risk Info Magazine, sharing my belief that while it is important to...