Philo Insights
Welcome to our Insights page. Immediately below is a display of Philo white papers available on the site. Click the green button below the previews to organise your personal access to these papers.
Further down the page is a full library or Philo’s blog posts in chronological order. You are welcome to peruse these at your leisure. New documents are added every two to three weeks. Enjoy!
Philo White Papers
Philo Blog Posts
A new beginning?
A Monday thought on new beginnings — and what’s worth carrying forward, and leaving behind, when starting one.
I Couldn’t Look Away – You Never Can from a Slow Moving Train Wreck
A Monday reflection on the slow-moving train wrecks we can’t look away from — and the lesson in why we keep watching.
Sorting the wheat from the chaff
If you could give someone one skill, would it be the ability to think clearly? A Monday reflection on what clear thinking actually requires.
Covid Contradictions
A Monday reflection on the contradictions of life in a pandemic, and the two camps most of us seemed to fall into.
Is this a Risky Time - or an Uncertain Time?
A Monday reflection on decision-making under uncertainty, and why calling a period “risky” isn’t quite the same as calling it uncertain.
Continuous Vigilance is the Price of Freedom
A Monday reflection stepping back from managed accounts to look at the wider world — and why vigilance, even when it’s not our direct business, still matters.
Dimensions of uncertainty
A Monday reflection on living through a “phony war” of uncertainty in the early days of the pandemic, and what it means for how advisers manage client anxiety.
How we move forward
A Monday reflection, on why adversity tends to teach us more than comfort ever does.
The urgent displacing the important
A Monday reflection on why the urgent so often crowds out the important — and what to do about it.
Your idea of risk and my idea of risk aren’t the same
A Monday reflection on why one client’s idea of risk rarely matches another’s — and what that means for how advisers frame it.
Why do we do it?
A Monday reflection on motivation, and the need to recognise and be grateful for those aspects of work that give us pleasure.
Reasons to be cheerful!
A Monday reflection on reasons for optimism — even when the prevailing mood says otherwise.
Covid Created Constitutional Crisis
A Monday reflection on the FASEA Code of Ethics, and the near-impossible task of legislating for morals everyone claims to already agree on.
Choosing how to be impacted by specialisation
A Monday reflection on specialisation, and how much choice we really have in how it reshapes the way we work.
Shared Experience
A Monday reflection on shared experience, and why this year gave us more of it, whether we wanted it or not.