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Four areas where business owners can miss out without financial advice

Aug 19, 2024 | professionaladviser.com | Luke Norman

Can business owners afford not to take financial advice? Chartered financial planner Luke Norman the benefits of financial advice for business owners and highlights four key areas for them to consider... Whilst many business owners will employ the services of an accountant, they may find it harder to visualise how working with a financial adviser could benefit their bottom line. There's a myriad of planning opportunities that can be missed in the absence of professional financial advice.
Eric Rush: France have ‘perfect’ Olympic sevens recipe

Jul 20, 2024 | rugbypass.com | Luke Norman

Eric Rush’s heart is fighting a losing battle with his head. A passionate New Zealander from top to toe, the former All Black wants to back his countrymen to win their first-ever men’s Olympic sevens gold in Paris later this month. That feeling is only increased by the fact his son, Brady Rush, will be on the field at Stade de France. But his head has been turned by Olympic hosts France. “It’s great for the tournament that Dupont is there.
‘This one is about me’: Portia Woodman-Wickliffe targets fairytale ending in Paris

Jul 17, 2024 | rugbypass.com | Luke Norman

Portia Woodman-Wickliffe has spent her career winning. Every victory has been about repaying her parent’s sacrifices, each individual accolade about inspiring others. But now, as her last dance looms, the most decorated women’s rugby player of all time has found a different source of motivation.
The grind and the glory: Anatomy of a sevens hooker

Apr 5, 2024 | svns.com | Luke Norman

Australia’s two-time Olympic men’s hooker Henry Hutchison knows exactly when he has had a good game. “If I don’t feel like I’ve been hit by a train, I haven’t really done my job,” Hutchison laughed. “My role is to get the work, grind for the team and get it done.” While that might not sound too glamorous, Hutchison, who played on the wing for his first couple of seasons as an international, would disagree. The grind is where the glory is, according to the Australian.
Masakatsu Hikosaka: There is a lot of excitement in Japan around sevens | World Rugby

Feb 27, 2024 | world.rugby | Luke Norman

A thriving women’s game and a developing age-group structure underline the ever-growing appetite for sevens in Japan. All fans want and need now is for the men’s team to climb back to the top table, according to two-time men’s Olympian Masakatsu Hikosaka.
Gareth Baber: Sevens rugby is like tiki-taka football | World Rugby

Feb 20, 2024 | world.rugby | Luke Norman

Playing and coaching rugby may have been Gareth Baber’s job for more decades than he might care to admit but put a good game of sevens in front of him and he remains a happy man. “You can’t take a breath when you watch great sevens,” Baber said ahead of the latest round of the HSBC SVNS 2024, which kicks off in Vancouver on Friday, 23 February. “There is jeopardy and there is risk in everything that everybody does.
This All Blacks ‘can do what we couldn’t manage in 1995’: Josh Kronfeld

Oct 28, 2023 | rugbypass.com | Luke Norman

Josh Kronfeld has just one clear memory of playing in the most celebrated rugby match in history. And it is not a good one. “The only part of the game I remember is the drop kick,” a ruefully smiling Kronfeld said of the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg. As the All Blacks open-side flanker, it was Kronfeld’s job to stop Joel Stransky kicking South Africa into extra-time history. But as with so much on and around that fateful day at Ellis Park, it seems to him it was just not meant to be.
Justin Marshall issues last-minute warning for the All Blacks

Oct 20, 2023 | rugbypass.com | Luke Norman

Justin Marshall is as aware as anyone ahead of New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup semi-final against Argentina that his former team is “expected to win, should win and will win if they play the rugby they are capable of”. But the man who won 81 All Black caps also knows better than most that things can go horribly wrong in a heartbeat.
Matt Dawson on the elephant in the room for New Zealand

Oct 14, 2023 | msn.com | Luke Norman
Matt Dawson on the elephant in the room for New Zealand

Oct 14, 2023 | rugbypass.com | Luke Norman

Ireland have the form, the confidence plus the weight of recent success behind them and are poised to do to New Zealand what the three-time World Cup winners have done to so many other teams in the past. That’s the view of Matt Dawson, a man who knows just what it is like to be part of a team tearing up the established norms of rugby lore.