HeyJaredStephen Cranston
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STEPHEN CRANSTON | Financial advice shifts from sales to client needs (opens the original)
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I am old enough to remember the days before people talked of financial advice. The gold standard was to qualify for the Million-Dollar Round Table, a delightful piece of Americana. Anyone who wrote $1m of premium income would be able to go to New Orleans to go to a high-octane motivational conference. It was imbued with the spirit of the Norman Vincent Peale classic The Power of Positive Thinking. It celebrated self-confidence and the ability to maximise sales. Apparently this conference carries
STEPHEN CRANSTON | Performance filters alone miss the best unit trusts (opens the original)
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There is often talk of a misery of choice in investments. There are 2,000 unit trusts to choose from. So what filters should we consider? Unlike short-term insurance, for example, unit trusts remain a predominantly intermediated market ― though this is changing with the rise of self-help platforms such as Easy Equities. Yet this does not have the same traction yet in the direct mutual fund sales Charles Schwab has achieved in the US or Hargreaves Lansdown in the UK. Easy Equities remains primari
STEPHEN CRANSTON | PIC governance overhaul is long overdue (opens the original)
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The new Public Investment Corporation (PIC) board has just been announced. Most of the analysis of the recent goings-on at the PIC, and the resignations (voluntary or otherwise) that followed, seem to have focused more on governance, politics and board composition, ignoring the root cause of the problems. You can apply all the oversight you like, but if the people responsible for executing the mandate don’t know what they’re doing or, worse still, are being told what to do, failure will be inevi
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