“It is all about integrity. It's all about actually, just because you do something that you can justify to yourself, doesn't mean that you can live with it.
“That resonates a lot with how to give advice.”
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And lastly, what is the one thing you cannot live without as an adviser?
“Probably my calculator,” he said.
“By academic training, I’m a mathematician, maths and physics, so I do take a more mathematical approach to the job than some advisers.”
Neall said he understands that it’s essential to know the lifestyle concept but argued it's actually a whole lot easier to get into that side of the conversation if you can talk very confidently about numbers.
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