Last night I went to The Traders monthly meeting to hear Tony Falkenstein of Just Water fame speak, and to find out more about the radical change in direction which The traders is taking.
I have never seen more people join an organisation in one meeting in my life, so the offering was clearly relevant; value for money; put together by someone who understands how to create, grow and manage a successful organisation.
The new management team will I believe add great depth to the organisation and cover many diverse strategies, each of which are more or less relevant as the market moves through the property cycle, and with the new broader range of property aspects now covered by the team there is definitely something for everyone. Would be great to see some women (or husband and wife teams) in that team, lots of single or married men on their own in management is in my opinion unbalanced.
Having now a keynote speaker every second month, and a forum or workshop on every other month will I believe allow more members to seek solutions taylored to their current issues and should be a great success.
I enjoyed Tony's talk in which he lead us through his career path, mistakes made along the way (and lessons learned), and more particularly that he gave us an insight into how he thinks, what inspires him, and his personal attidudes to the various forms of investment.
Personal opinion, if you get to read this Ashley... the cake and coffee at APIA is magic, and encourages people to stay and mix longer... don't know how this can be incorporated into the new fee structure but I for one would pay more for a coffee, don't really want to go down to the bar for a bevvie :O)
I'd be interested to hear what others who attended thought of the new direction and structure, when I first heard of the new direction I thought they were mad and spreading themselves too thin, but they may be onto something big???
Lincoln
I have never seen more people join an organisation in one meeting in my life, so the offering was clearly relevant; value for money; put together by someone who understands how to create, grow and manage a successful organisation.
The new management team will I believe add great depth to the organisation and cover many diverse strategies, each of which are more or less relevant as the market moves through the property cycle, and with the new broader range of property aspects now covered by the team there is definitely something for everyone. Would be great to see some women (or husband and wife teams) in that team, lots of single or married men on their own in management is in my opinion unbalanced.
Having now a keynote speaker every second month, and a forum or workshop on every other month will I believe allow more members to seek solutions taylored to their current issues and should be a great success.
I enjoyed Tony's talk in which he lead us through his career path, mistakes made along the way (and lessons learned), and more particularly that he gave us an insight into how he thinks, what inspires him, and his personal attidudes to the various forms of investment.
Personal opinion, if you get to read this Ashley... the cake and coffee at APIA is magic, and encourages people to stay and mix longer... don't know how this can be incorporated into the new fee structure but I for one would pay more for a coffee, don't really want to go down to the bar for a bevvie :O)
I'd be interested to hear what others who attended thought of the new direction and structure, when I first heard of the new direction I thought they were mad and spreading themselves too thin, but they may be onto something big???
Lincoln
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