Accountants and planners’ expectations continues to fuel sale and exit inertia says Paul Tynan

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Mature age accountants and financial planners are continuing to defer the sale of their practices in the erroneous expectation that their business will attract a higher price amongst a growing

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The pyramid business and government models just don’t work says Paul Tynan

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Although the New Year is now well underway, the debate that vertical integration leads to poor quality of advice and advice that is not in the best interest of clients

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Malaysia & SE Asia could provide workable life solutions for retirees impacted by new Assets Test

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The rude shock many seniors will wake up to on January 1 2017 as the impact on pensions and benefits are realized as the result of changes to the Age

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Institutional financial planning business model is dead – what about the future?

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History will judge institutional ownership of financial planning in Australia as a venture that failed to live up to expectations says Connect Financial Service Brokers (Connect) CEO Paul Tynan as

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Financial services tectonic plates have shifted irreversibly – now is the time to act

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Connect Financial Service Brokers (Connect) CEO Paul Tynan has observed that although many within the financial services industry proclaim the world is changing and they are embracing the new era

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Demand for accounting and planning practices is still high…but new trends emerging says Tynan

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Connect Financial Service Brokers (Connect) CEO Paul Tynan has observed that nationally here are still more buyers than sellers for accounting and financial planning businesses – a trend that has

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The great intergenerational transfer of wealth is not going to happen

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Much has been written and predicted in Australia and globally about the great intergenerational transfer of wealth and financial assets by the Baby Boomers to their children and heirs but

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Advice industry won’t be alone in dealing with change in 2016 and beyond

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As another year comes to an end, Connect Financial Service Brokers (Connect) CEO Paul Tynan strongly recommends advisers to quickly forget about the ‘good old days’, FoFA and the Life

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Australian businesses need to view FTAs realistically and respond while time is on their side

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Whilst congratulating the federal government for implementing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Australia’s trading partners, Connect ASEAN CEO and founder Paul Tynan also cautions supporters of FTAs and ‘would be’

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Australian retirees should consider moving overseas to maximise retirement prospects

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The question of how Australia is going to fund Baby Boomer retirement is the ‘elephant in the room’ in Australian politics and far from being a uniquely Australian issue, it

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