Is advice really all just about money at the end of the day?

A look at whether the most money possible is all clients care about

Hope Coumbe
clock • 4 min read

Hope Coumbe delves into an adviser’s recent admission about what their clients care about and how true it is across the board…

If you had asked teenage me what a financial adviser did, I would have said they invest rich people's money and make them richer. Simple as that. Is that a fair overview? In some ways yes and in some ways, definitely not. I started as a journalist writing about financial advice straight out of University and quickly realised there was far more to it that first meets the eye. After a couple of years, my understanding of ‘planning' in the broader sense and of financial coaching had been truly cemented. Almost a decade on, I would never summarise what an adviser/planner does in such a ...

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