Quality Life

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Global Transition for High Net Worth Individuals

I have just read KPMG’s Swiss Financial Services Newsletter for August 2008. The newsletter provides very sharp insights into the increasingly complex international needs of high net worth individuals. The outcome is that the consulting team will need to have a greater global outlook and more sophisticated approach to the technical [...]

Should You Be In The Business?

I have had some interesting discussions in the past week with financial advisors and managers of advisors. With the financial downturn everyone is evaluating where they are at. The big question being asked is: “Should you be in the business?”
My feeling is that over the next 1 to 3 years many [...]

Finding Meaning In Your Life

For a few years now there has been an increasing trend toward people taking steps to find greater meaning in their life. Gradually, more and more people are having the courage to do it and not just talk about it. This may involve turning their back on what is a well paid [...]

The Impact of Money on Your Family

What has been the impact of money on your family? This is a big question and one often addressed in a family meeting. Also, it is often asked by your financial advisor in the financial planning discussion.
There will be both positive and negative impacts of money on a family. In many [...]

Review Your Relationship with Money

Recently, I have had a great experience in reading a book called “The Energy of Money” by Maria Nemeth. I would thoroughly recommend this book to any person who is interested in better understanding their relationship to money. After all, this is what I have been advocating very strongly in my [...]

Knowing Self Increases Financial Capability

Core to my passion is seeing people take more personal responsibility for their financial decisions. In the end this is actually key to your financial success, and overall quality life. To take more personal responsibility means increasing your financial capability. I believe there is an obligation on yourself to get the [...]

Family Transparency

A common derailer that I have seen in many families is a lack of transparency. There is key information which is not being disclosed to other family members and, in some cases, to key people in a family business. Usually, this is caused by the holder of the information not trusting [...]

Being or Doing

I am meeting and communicating with an increasing number of people who are searching for more meaning in their life. Or put another way discovering their life purpose.
To be honest, a lot of what many people are doing is just searching. Life purpose discovery is difficult and in many ways a [...]

Balancing Life Return and Financial Return

The other day, I was having a philosophical discussion with one of our Wealth Mentors about the role of advisors in the life of a client. “Around the traps”, very often wisdom is brought up, or providing peace of mind, and of course, managing the performance of [...]

What Are You Passionate About?

In recent weeks, I have had so many conversations with people where passion has come up in various ways. So, I thought it would be good to put some more energy into it by commenting on it in my blog. I even did a very interesting interview with one [...]

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