Discover how Sunita has more cash in her pocket
Sunita's tax strategy didn’t seem to have evolved along with her changing personal objectives. …
Esse quam videri
I wonder, is it better to be rich or seem it? Is it better, for instance, to own a £1m stock portfolio or a £1m house outright? …
‘Financial advisers need a much deeper understanding of their clients’
We offer solutions to our clients throughout their financial life. …
The law of unintended consequences
When you’re running a business like a typical dentist, in the directional mode of “do this, then that”, what happens? …
The cost of trying to do everything yourself
Being a good clinician used to be enough to run a commercially successful dental practice. …
The trouble with a little drop in revenue
And there are plenty of other ways for costs to ratchet up: debt repayments, staff wages, equipment, refurbishments, GDC fees. …
Why the cost sharing model is dead
The cost sharing model was once a mainstream hit with dentists but it seems to be finally dying out. The dynamics don’t seem to work in the 21st century, and here’s why I think that is. …
Amateurs forget to hydrate
Most people have had at least one inspired idea, but how many people have applied their idea? …
NHS: don’t wait, get out now
But there are many problems, not least the farce of trying to differentiate your private treatments in a mixed practice that uses the same staff and facilities. …
Who’d be an employer?
The dental sector harbours a large number of people who run their businesses just to get along. …
2 sites better than 1?
If you were looking for a sure fire way of ensuring that an investment didn't pay off, but instead depreciated rapidly, a second car is a very good idea. …
How did you fare in the so-called decade of austerity?
A deluge of technological innovations are coming our way and they will keep transforming consumer behaviour like this in ways that we can’t imagine. …
Friction costs your business more than you will ever imagine
When I think about the things that our clients want to do, I wonder if there are ways that we can make life easier for them by taking out friction. …
Falling behind due to circumstances outside your control?
It seems there’s a division of wealth according to circumstances, certainly by geography, but also I think it’s fair to say more generally, as a function of the randomness of life. …
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing
As the American business magnate Warren Buffett once said, risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. …
