Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Welcome to The Moran Principle
Hi there, this blog is a series of short essays relating to Financial Planning for you to consider and comment on. With the huge changes that are going on within our industry at present, I thought this would be an appropriate means to get some dialogue going. It doesn't seem that many in the media are interested in this - let's see how it goes.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Here here. Add to the insurance argument level premiums v stepped, most, if not all retail and industry super funds have stepped premiums whereas, especially for younger poeple, level could be more appropriate. Another issue to consider is the employees of industry super fund who give this advice I assume get paid a salary, paid for by the fund which means all members are paying for advice that only a few get - how is that different to an adviser who gets a commission from all clients but may only speak to a few of them. I say all call centre staff should charge a fee for the advice they provide general or otherwise.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, some research done by an industry fund showed that their members were happy to pay up to $500 for a financial plan - and that virtually none of them took up the offer for an 'independent plan' from IFFP because it was too expensive! This is the result of pretending that advice can be offered for free. Thanks for the comment - hope you follow the blog in the future.
ReplyDelete