At an average age of 58, advisers are unlikely candidates for succumbing to the errors of youth. But according to Attivo chief executive Stephen Harper, a stubborn reluctance to relinquish their cottage industry roots is keeping the sector young and dumb...
Like a teenager sending moody shots across Snapchat, cutting opinions from the Attivo founder and CEO come thick and fast. Stephen Harper is refreshingly frank in the PR polished world of financial services, and he reckons it's advisers who are the unrefined juveniles. "The industry needs to grow up and not be run like a tin pot [business] but a real profession," he said. ‘Tin pot' probably has its origins in the low esteem held for a tinker's wares. That's certainly how Harper uses it. And he wants a cull. "I wouldn't choose an accountant if they were a one-man-band operating o...
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