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Financial planning

7 June 2000

You can't trust nobody in Plannaworld

It has been said that a long time sitting in front of clients telling them what to do with their money can do funny things to your mind. Nick Bruining explores the more s...

Financial planning

10 May 2000

Payback time for phone stalkers

There are a lot of benefits in being a small dealer. You don’t have a person showing up every few months from national office to talk about…. Well, you just don’t get a v...

Financial planning

15 March 2000

Ali Baba and the 40 computer thieves

I think it is time someone spilled the beans on computers and described exactly what goes on. Firstly, we should establish the fact that there are basically two types of ...

Financial planning

16 February 2000

And we use them for efficiency?

Well, now the silly season has passed us by, we can all get back to some serious work. I must confess to having caught the millennium bug, at least something must have ca...

Financial planning

27 October 1999

Put on hold? Talk to Gary

A lot of advisers do not appreciate the finer qualities of the business development executives whose job it is to tend to their every wish. Nick Bruining, however, won’t ...

Financial planning

29 September 1999

Welcome to the lemming's engaging reincarnation

In an obvious move to boost a desperately sagging circulation, “Stewy the Fridge” has decided to cast decency, good taste and sense to the four winds and ask the lemming ...

Financial planning

15 September 1999

Nod for HSBC investments

Recent HSBC Australia recruit David Stuart has got the nod as regional chief invest-ment officer following the departure of long serving Ian Burden....

Financial planning

18 August 1999

Lemming on the loose

When we last left our favourite lemming, newly annointed dealer principal Nick Bruining, being atacked by a group of brochure delivery men (BDMs). In this exciting instal...

Financial planning

14 April 1999

It’s maaating season for our favourite lemming

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Financial planning

31 March 1999

Beware of lemmings bearing questions

Readers will remember our last episode where Nick Bruining had decided to take the leap of faith required to obtain a dealer's licence. We left our intrepid hero dangling...