Got any cash on ya, sport?
With those ruddy big blocks of concrete being set up in Homebush, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sydney was going sports mad.
With those ruddy big blocks of concrete being set up in Homebush, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sydney was going sports mad.
And the fever appears to be spreading into financial services. In fact, Mercy Mut recently put on a charity do which managed to reallocate $100,000 from financial planners’ pockets into the coffers of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation — all in the name of sweat.
Head of the queue to empty his pockets was the Vandenbergh group’s Barry Van-denbergh. Barry forked out a motza to take 50 of his closest friends to wine, dine and enjoy a sumptuous display of Australian Rules Football by the Sydney Swans at a corporate box at the SCG.
Another adviser with no shortage of mates is Michael Mooney of Michael Mooney Insurance Agency. Mooney bagged a corporate tennis day package for 40 at the NSW tennis centre at Homebush.
Another big win for sport came from Phil Shirriff, former head honcho of IMD Asia. Shirriff fought off a number of contenders and walked away with a Bradman and Morris autographed cricket bat.
Who said getting money out of financial advisers is like getting blood out of a stone.
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