If a career in financial services doesn’t work out for Paul Barrett then he could seemingly make a decent living as a chippie: he’s hit the nail on the head with his recent column about the affordability of financial advice.
Barrett argues that life, and finance, are complex and therefore financial advice is complex and has a price tag to reflect this. Rather than looking for ways to reduce the price of advice, the industry should revel in the complexity of the issues it solves for its clients and be unashamed about the cost of its services.
Of course, cost is half the equation. The other half is value. If consumers perceive value in something they will pay for it. But if they can’t perceive value, they’ll focus on the only number they can, which is the price.
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Three horns and twelve tons of fun,
Triceratops is one of the best-known dinosaurs, spotted everywhere from museums to picture books, toy stores to cinema screens. Because of this, and because a large number of specimens have been unearthed,
Triceratops is also a much-loved and well-studied species with a number of intriguing questions still up for debate.
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Roughly the size of an elephant, this hefty herbivore walked on four legs and lived around the same time as the
T. rex, ultimately succumbing to the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period.