Intelligent Investment Advice
OK, OK, I know what you're thinking . . . "Pas possible!", but it was a pleasure to meet an intelligent Investment Advisor last week, in Christchurch of all places.
The guy's name is Peter Flannery and he runs an Investment advisory business (The Financial Freedom Coach), that has morphed into a private Investment Training programme. More about that later.
Go Kiwi Internet's Christchurch web development Agent, Rob Laidlaw invited me to speak at their annual conference and over 40 people were entertained (some may say spell-bound") for half an hour by a Computer geek North of the Bombays.
That's a mission in itself. From my experience, anyone heading to the South Island better have a decent pedigree, a pretty strong introduction or deliver the goods, or they'll get the cold shoulder quick smart! They're quite a parochial lot down there, but Rob has a pretty good standing in these guys' midst, so the introduction was appreciated and I was welcomed almost as a local by all I met.
To be honest, shares, stocks, investments and markets are not really my scene, so I was only really partly interested in his business. I'd checked out his website and determined that he needed help in that department. I always get suspicious when people want show me how to make more money. Ninety nine times out of a hundred it's them getting rich off me, rather than the other way round but I did see a few things that he'd mentioned, such as the quality of investment (i.e. the underlying value of the company on offer) and a mention or two about well-rounded living caught my eye too.
The conference was fine. Some good words of advice all round and I seemed to warm to his business, his style, the quality of his advice, and also the quality of his clients. These dudes were not your everyday plodders, They had a touch of class about them. They were thinkers, and had some get-up-and-go. Peter works hard to get them to be accountable and they seemed to appreciate that.
His programme teaches a balance portfolios of property, shares in companies that have inherent value (aside from the stock value) and investing into business. He has multiple tiers of membership depending on your commitment but I never got into the actual membership details. From what I've gleaned it's worthy of a look if you're developing a portfolio and want some solid advice. He's a family man and strikes me as a pretty level headed dude, if slightly off the mainstream investment advisor. Actually I think that is probably why he's giving that good advice!
It was a good experience and pleasure to be part of it.
I found out one of the reasons that I had time for Peter after the event when chatting about global currencies. He's obviously up with the play on the Federal Reserve - "don't get me started on the Fed" he says, rolling his eyes. Eustace Mullins has the best wrap-up of the people and circumstances that brought about the biggest con in financial history that I know of, and I'll slip a summary of the Federal Reserve into my conspiracy corner sometime. The guts of it is that the money system has been manipulated by private interests (the central banking cartel run from the City of London) since they created the Federal Reserve in 1913.
An investment advisor and financial coach that knows and understands how things REALLY work rather than just falling for media hype and sales BS really has to be someone to listen to in my books.
You get my Go for it awardfor today, Peter!!
Tagwords: peter flannery, investment advisor, christchurch
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