It's time to get serious about advice
I was challenged the other day when I was told, "you have to stop thinking about financial planning as being something unrelated to life insurance advice".
While this may be the perception of the person who said it, it isn't strictly my current view. However, it does raise some issues we should discuss as an industry.
To the person who said this to me, thank you! Contrary to belief, I'm not as inflexible as I may seem - often quite the opposite.
The point around this discussion is how far down the rabbit hole should we be going...MORE»
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