Reality check Celebrating 40 years in any job is a remarkable feat and to still love doing what you do after all those years is all the more impressive. Hillross Macarthur's Peter Nonnenmacher shares with Jamie Williamson his thoughts on the changing world of advice.
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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.
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