Jeff Morris was born in Sydney, Australia to a father who worked in the banking industry, and from his parents Morris inherited a sense of “fair play and doing the right thing.” He had a middle class upbringing in the suburbs, and he considers himself “lucky” that he went to a “good school where the teachers were very good.” His headmaster had been a bomber pilot in WW2 and drove a vintage Rolls Royce to school. Morris felt that the headmaster set a certain standard for behavior, and at Morris’ twenty year reunion, some of the teachers were still afraid of the headmaster. Morris stated that in his opinion, today he sees a “sickness pervading institutions in (our) country and around the world where people are prepared to compromise their integrity to get ahead. That comes back to the materialism that is a scourge on society.”
Morris feels that the “values that are inculcated in you as a kid, you carry into adulthood. The boy becomes the man.” His father worked for forty-two years in one bank (there are four major banks in Australia) and told his son that he did not care what his son did, as long as he did not work for a bank. His father felt that his long career in banking had been a waste of a life.
Morris studied Economics and Law at the University of Sydney and got his certification as a Certified Financial Planner. He spent nearly 30 years working in financial services including NatWest...
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