Yellowtail's Dennis Hall: How I prepared for RDR

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Dennis Hall, managing director of Yellowtail Financial Planning, reveals how putting RDR preparation top of his agenda when he first launched his business has stood him in good stead.

Looking beyond the point of impact is central to many sports and activities, the follow through in a golf swing or punching through your opponent in boxing or karate. And the idea of looking beyond the RDR was very much on my mind when Yellowtail first opened for business in April 2006. You may remember this as the time the RDR was first mooted, though the idea that commission was heading for the chop had been mentioned some time before. By and large I was already prepared for the RDR and as it finally began to take shape I discovered that many of the anticipated changes were being si...

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