Here's why you haven't seen many CEOs and senior execs recently
Russell Hutchinson outlines many of the issues insurance companies have their heads buried in at the moment, and why advisers haven't been seeing many of the industry leaders out and about.
Insurers have been buried in work recently. Here on Good Returns, you can find an interview with Naomi Ballantyne, CEO, Partners Life, in which she talks about the effect of the effort required to respond to the FMA/RBNZ’s conduct and culture investigation...MORE»
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There is much to complain about, I mean it. There is bad advice, bad behaviour, bad advertising, and sometimes, outright fraud. No wonder you want to complain.
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The problems of breaking out of a current worldview were exemplified in a series of comments on a Good Returns article recently. Two industry stalwarts had proposed a new approach to commission.
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In a tiny business, the difference between how the business earns revenue, and how the adviser gets paid isn’t really very relevant.
MORE»How you get paid
There are two sides of the coin when considering the possible effect of commission and incentives on advice when you run an advice business. This article is about how you get paid, the next will be about how you pay your advisers.
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