What advisers can learn from artistsBY JIM STACKPOOL | THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020 9:37PMMy son is addicted to art. Big time. Turn your back on him and he's sketching something, leaving trails of charcoal fingerprints in unlikely places, getting lost in his own space. Upgrade your subscription to access this article
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Advice with soul
SACHA BURCHGART
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
BURCHEART PTY LTD
Though she initially tried, Sacha Burchgart couldn't escape the call of a career in financial advice; it just took staring down her own mortality to see what's possible when you do things differently. Jamie Williamson writes.









Unfortunately the regulator may not view advisers as part artists, but want to see quantitative evidence or calculations of the value created, or a time cost equivalent, and then from a perspective of a straw person - someone who will always seek the cheapest market option available, with limited emotional support or investment education needs, and with impeccable discipline and patience, able to implement much of the advice proposition on their own.