Young at heart
Despite years of talking about increasing the reach of financial advice, it has stagnated at two in 10 Australians and remained in this ball park for some time. The number of women opting for a career in financial advice is also stuck around the same ratio, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to attract new, particularly young, talent to the industry.
After realising that a big cross-section of the community is, for the most part, being excluded – or certainly feeling excluded – from seeking advice, Jessica Brady and Glen Hare saw an opportunity and founded Fox & Hare.
Having worked together for about a decade in business development at Macquarie, Brady and Hare grew tired of visiting advice practices and meeting the same “middle-aged or older white men that typically serviced that same demographic”.
Hare explains: “I loved my job but it kind
