World's Greatest Shave - Leukaemia Foundation
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:38 pmGuys, most of you would have heard of the Leukaemia Foundation's (LF) "World's Greatest Shave" charity event, where people arrange to have their hair coloured, dyed or shaved/shaven (choose correct word) off (or, as they say in Brisbane "orf").
My company and I are participating in this for 3 main reasons:
1. My father was diagnosed with Leukaemia in August 2005, went into remission in December 2005 (thanks to the fantastic work of the oncology department at Westmead Hospital) and was re-diagnosed again in January this year.
2. This is a great fundraising event that benefits a worthwhile organisation.
3. In our industry (Financial Planning), there are many payments and kickbacks that financial planners get which create conflicts of interest (which is basically a situation where the client's interests are in conflict with that of the planner to maximise the amount they get paid). One of these areas is via the use of "platforms" (admin systems) which pay planning groups "volume rebates", which are basically commissions by another name. My company rebates all commissions and brokerages back to clients, but, unfortunately, is in receipt of these volume rebates, which can not effectively be rebated back to clients. At the end of all that, we, with the agreement of affected clients, are going to donate all the rebate we have received to the LF via the Greatest Shave. We are challenging all other financial planning groups to do the same! phew!
I, along with a colleague, will have our heads shaved and all this is occurring on Friday,16 March at our office in Brookvale, where Ex-Olympian Melinda Gainsford-Taylor has committed to doing the honours. Whilst technicalities are to be confirmed, we are hoping to have Channel 10's Tim Bailey present his weather report from the event to additionally promote the charity fundraising.
If you would like to show your support, then please register online as a sponsor (details below)
Go to Worlds Greatest Shave
Click on DONATE
Select I am sponsoring someone who is shaving
Press Next
Go Down to Group Name section
Type in Strategy First
Press Search
Click on SPONSOR (next to Strategy First)
Type in your contact details
Type in your credit card details
Click CONFIRM
The Leukaemia Foundation will email you a receipt for tax purposes.
To give you some added motivation or to simply give you a laugh,
please see a “Photoshop” prediction of just how silly Dave and Pat
will look on the World’s Greatest Shave website. They are both registered
under Strategy First Financial Planning and to locate the photos, click on the link below.
http://www.worldsgreatestshave.com/profile.php?id=291554
Your help would be greatly appreciated by those who are directly or indirectly affected by leukaemia.
Mods, if this is inappropriate or in the wrong area, feel free to move/delete.
Cheers
Patrick
My company and I are participating in this for 3 main reasons:
1. My father was diagnosed with Leukaemia in August 2005, went into remission in December 2005 (thanks to the fantastic work of the oncology department at Westmead Hospital) and was re-diagnosed again in January this year.
2. This is a great fundraising event that benefits a worthwhile organisation.
3. In our industry (Financial Planning), there are many payments and kickbacks that financial planners get which create conflicts of interest (which is basically a situation where the client's interests are in conflict with that of the planner to maximise the amount they get paid). One of these areas is via the use of "platforms" (admin systems) which pay planning groups "volume rebates", which are basically commissions by another name. My company rebates all commissions and brokerages back to clients, but, unfortunately, is in receipt of these volume rebates, which can not effectively be rebated back to clients. At the end of all that, we, with the agreement of affected clients, are going to donate all the rebate we have received to the LF via the Greatest Shave. We are challenging all other financial planning groups to do the same! phew!
I, along with a colleague, will have our heads shaved and all this is occurring on Friday,16 March at our office in Brookvale, where Ex-Olympian Melinda Gainsford-Taylor has committed to doing the honours. Whilst technicalities are to be confirmed, we are hoping to have Channel 10's Tim Bailey present his weather report from the event to additionally promote the charity fundraising.
If you would like to show your support, then please register online as a sponsor (details below)
Go to Worlds Greatest Shave
Click on DONATE
Select I am sponsoring someone who is shaving
Press Next
Go Down to Group Name section
Type in Strategy First
Press Search
Click on SPONSOR (next to Strategy First)
Type in your contact details
Type in your credit card details
Click CONFIRM
The Leukaemia Foundation will email you a receipt for tax purposes.
To give you some added motivation or to simply give you a laugh,
please see a “Photoshop” prediction of just how silly Dave and Pat
will look on the World’s Greatest Shave website. They are both registered
under Strategy First Financial Planning and to locate the photos, click on the link below.
http://www.worldsgreatestshave.com/profile.php?id=291554
Your help would be greatly appreciated by those who are directly or indirectly affected by leukaemia.
Mods, if this is inappropriate or in the wrong area, feel free to move/delete.
Cheers
Patrick
He started his chemo a couple weeks ago.
