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Community minded Business, Politics, Sports and Social Commentator.

Is the gravy train ending for Financial Planners?

I will be Chairing a breakout session  titled “The new AFSL: How to Price your advice” presented by Mr Greg Hayes FCPA and director of Hayes Knight (NSW) Pty Ltd to navigate this technical minefield set to change from 1st July 2014.

Does this spell the end of old style trailing commissions structures? We will find out at 2.30pm today.

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POLL: What do people really think of Accountants?

As some of you know from my earlier post, The next two days I am going to be talking Accounting!

I thought I would kick things off with a poll running over course of the two day event so if you are reading this now then consider yourself eligible to respond. It will take two seconds to select one of the options and see the results and I think they may surprises some people.

“Go on, tell us what you think…. we can take it!”

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Can Phil Waugh do it all?

Phil Waugh is definitely a name that stands out among the record 29 candidates for this SCG Trust election but his winning one of the two seats on offer is by no means a certainty. 2010 preferential voting ballot results make this very clear but there is more to the story. If people still haven’t voted then they need to take action now and here is why;

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