🧇 The Weekly Waffle - 15th December 2023 📅
Hey there, Academy All-Stars! 🌟
Today's Friday Lunch Bunch at the Academy Town Hall was a carnival of insights and intriguing discussions. 🎪 Here's your bite-sized digest, sprinkled with all the juicy bits and handy links. 🍔🔗
Expat Extravaganza: Planning for Non-UK-Born Residents 🌍 With a whopping 9 million non-UK-born residents in London, it's likely that your neighbour, client, or even their pet parrot 🦜 has overseas assets. While regulated advisers might run for the hills at the mere mention of this, we holistic planners laugh in the face of such limitations. Remember, CPD isn't just fancy jargon; it's your golden ticket 🎫 to unlocking these international treasure chests.
2024: The Year of The Game Plan Evolution 🚀 RLPs have their Life Mastery Shorts, and now TGPs, get ready for your spotlight moment with the 2024 CPD Masterclass Sessions. Forget the yawn-inducing lessons from advisory school; we're diving headfirst into the uncharted waters of non-intermediating financial planning. Nab your tickets in blocks of 4 and gear up for a year of brain-boosting, all available VOD for our busy bees. 🐝
Tony Field's Leap of Faith 🤸♂️ Circle 25th January 2024 in your diaries. Tony Field, our Katalyst Coach, will be live streaming on LinkedIn, sharing his bold journey from the comfy confines of the City to the exhilarating world of personal and executive coaching. Expect a tale of bravery, risk-taking, and a wallet-bulging six-figure income. Booking details coming soon. 🎥
Sirjeel's Tax Tips 💸 Our resident accounting wizard, Sirjeel, dropped some serious knowledge bombs on Lamplighters this week. Did you know auto-enrolled pension scheme members are practically throwing higher-rate tax relief out the window? 💸 With a decade of auto-enrolment behind us, it's high time to ask: how much tax are your clients unknowingly overpaying?
Alchemy of Assets ✨ Regulated advisers might obsess over that tiny 5% of investments that are regulated. But what about the 40% property/real estate, 40% occupational pensions, and that tantalising 10% in savings accounts? And let's not forget intrinsic assets like skills, reputation, and know-how – they could be worth up to 50 times their extrinsic value. The Academy is here to guide you in identifying and leveraging these hidden treasures.
FCA's Fence-Sitting: Advice vs. Guidance 🤔 The FCA's paper DP23/5 sparked more animated discussions. They see an 'advice gap'; we see a 'selling gap'. Perhaps the masses don’t really want to see advisers, and maybe the feeling is mutual. Enter our non-intermediating financial planners, equipped with solutions that don't break the bank. 💰
Toolkit Tales: A Case Study 🧰 This week, we tackled a challenging scenario: elderly parents, worried about their son's lack of direction, and hesitant about life planning. Our approach? A mix of Ikigai Canvas, a 100-year life diagnostic tool, an inspirational clip, and an eye-opening video on adviser fees. The aim? To ease parental worries and inspire a life of crescendo and significance.
Robin Powell's Anti-Fraud Mantra 🚫 With fraud accounting for a staggering 50% of reported UK crime, Robin Powell's latest video is essential viewing. His solution to scam calls? Just one finger – and no, not that one – to hang up! ☎️
10 New Skills for Financial Planners 📚 Traditional financial advice, step aside. We're diving into 10 innovative skills like creating assets from scratch, challenging the conventional FIRE method. This one's for the rest of us who aren’t kickstarting our wealth-building journey in our 20s.
That's all, folks, for this week! Stay tuned for our final Town Hall before Christmas. 🎄
Here's your personal invite, don't forget the crimbo jumper! 🧶🎄
Topic: Town Hall Q4 2023 - Friday Lunch Bunch
Time: Dec 22, 2023 12:00 PM London
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Dec 22, 2023 12:00 PM
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Steve Conley
Founder, Academy of Life Planning
email: steve.conley@aolp.co.uk