by Christopher Zinn
For a sometimes shy and often-misunderstood calling financial planners have seen themselves on TV recently perhaps more than they might have liked.
Yet despite all the news and Four Corners’ exposes there’s been precious little conveyed to the…
by Christopher Zinn
Financial planners should be more open and honest about what really bugs them, not about the assistant treasurer, but about their own customers. They’ve copped a one-way abuse from politicians and the public for years but we’ve barely heard a peep…
by Christopher Zinn
One problem with life insurance is its very name which confuses some consumers, but perhaps like the misleading term credit card it’s a happy accident we have to live with.
by Christopher Zinn
Technology seems to be changing most aspects of our lives and financial advice will not be immune. The predicted outcomes depend on which of the big consultancies you fancy as best able to see into the future.
by Christopher Zinn
Another weekend, another disclosure and another call for a royal commission into the finance sector.
And to abuse a hackneyed phrase, is this ongoing demolition of trust by headline (justified or not) the new normal?
by Christopher Zinn
If you read four of the eight reasons we humans, especially poorer and less genetically-blessed ones, make poor financial decisions yesterday here is the other half of the list.
by Christopher Zinn
Lists were usually regarded as boring documents when I was growing up but now they are a basis of a whole new school of journalism, such as eight reasons you make bad financial decisions.
by Christopher Zinn
Normally when anyone stands to lose something in the political game of who-gets-what they make a fuss, sometimes out of all proportion to the perceived forfeit.
Yet the 325,000 older Australians who stand to lose part or all of their pension…
by Christopher Zinn & World Bank
There are many excuses we can come up for not making ‘optimal’ decisions around our financial lives.
It’s too complex, too emotional or I’m too busy all get a good work out. But if you want to see a brilliant summary of the questions and some…