Psychology of FP Flashcards

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FC: Inadequate Communication

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lack of communication regarding money and budgeting often causes financial conflict

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FC: Family of Origin Treatment of Money

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Parents’ financial circumstances and patterns may greatly influence their children’s beliefs about money and how they value it

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FC: Different Risk Tolerance Levels

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Different risk tolerance levels create an imbalanced or unacceptable investment portfolio. Often times, it is preferable for each spouse to invest according to their own individual risk tolerance

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FC: Adult Children

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Many parents do not agree about the amount or level of financial support they should be providing their adult children. Consider using written documents to create guidelines

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FC: Blended Families

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Couples who bring together children from previous marriages may want to consider a pre-nup agreement. Re-married couples should update estate plan docs to meet their intentions

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FC: Cultural Differences

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Cultural factors influence money conflict among families - paternalism, personals family structure, etc.

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FC: Inheritance

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Heirs to an estate can create conflict. Inequality of distribution can effect familial relationships both emotionally and psychologically

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Social Penetration Theory

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  1. Orientation
  2. Exploration
  3. Affective Exchange
  4. Stable Exchange
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SPT: Orientation (1)

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Goal is to determine if there is value in developing an ongoing relationship - develop general likeability. Communication is generally in a conversational manner - client may feel cautious at this time.

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SPT: Exploration (2)

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Discuss FP Process in more detail - this includes discussion of goals and objectives (all while learning more about the client.

Develop the foundation of trust, clients will begin to share their true beliefs

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SPT: Affective Exchange (3)

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The client/planner relationship becomes one of significant trust - becomes more of a friendship. Planner will deeply understand the client and how his life/experiences will add to the process

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SPT: Stable Exchange (4)

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Last step once a consistent and established pattern has been created. Planner’s begin to anticipate client needs - honesty, trust, and mutual benefit are hallmarks of this stage

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SPT: Stable Exchange (4)

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Last step once a consistent and established pattern has been created. Planner’s begin to anticipate client needs - honesty, trust, and mutual benefit are hallmarks of this stage

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Non-Directive Counseling Skills

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  1. Nondirectional - there is not a clear path forward in the conversation as established by the planner
  2. Client-centered - the client is taking the lead in the focus and direction of the conversation

Used to encourage clients to reflect and share their goals, beliefs, traditions, cultural background, feelings, and concerns in a thorough and open manner.

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Types of Non-Directive Counseling Skills

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  1. Clarification - used to reduce ambiguity
  2. Paraphrasing - restatement paraphrase (repeats what the client says) & meaning paraphrase (restates with what the client believes they mean)
  3. Summarization - Verify capturing the client’s key goals
  4. Reflection - mirroring the clients state or mood in words (best short and to-the point - helps work through challenges)
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Directive Counseling Skills

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FP directed - The planner takes the lead in how the conversation is directed. Typically needs to be done at some point in every relationship

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Types of Directive Counseling Skills

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  1. Interpretation - understanding using financial terms
  2. Reframing - Shift perspectives by considering circumstances, feelings, or thoughts from another POV
  3. Explanation - descriptive statement used to make things more clear
  4. Advice - direction to the client
  5. Suggestion - this includes helping clients choose a course of action through their own initiative - provides information, not advice!
  6. Urging - prompting client to take immediate action - more direct than other options!
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Politeness & Sensitivity

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Politeness & Sensitivity begin when planners understand who they are as people.

Sensitivity relates to planners’ ability to respond thoughtfully to clients (do not make assumptions)

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Individualism –> Collectivism & Social Risk - Building Trust!

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Individualism: tend to value independence and uniqueness - may desire equal power, and thus a collaborative process

Collectivism: Tend to value interdependence, social cooperation, conformity, and inclusivity. More open to hierarchal power dynamics and let the planner take the lead.

Social Risk - The level to which one is willing to engage openly with another person (remember at beginning of relationship)

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Crisis Events:

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Black Swan Event - unpredictable event that causes severe consequences and is beyond what constitutes a normal market volatility.

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Financial & Economic Crises:

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Endogenous Risks: Risks found within the financial system itself - herding as all investors make same mistake (like bailing on the market)

Exogenous Risks: Risks outside the financial system - terrorist attack, earthquake, etc.

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Types of Changes to a plan

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Incremental Change - Does not effect overall plan, just noise (10% increase in income)

Discontinuous change - Winning the lottery, economy tanks - represents a radical departure from a current trend or pattern

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IPS Statement

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Current market and economic decisions cannot be the basis for a FP. Without a policy and “long-term” positive bias, clients typically manage the short-term fluctuations that toss them about resulting in micro-managing

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Helping Clients Navigate a Crisis

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  1. The planner understands and emphasizes the long-term financial goals
  2. The planner maintains a consistent approach with the client
  3. The planner acts as the client expects, confident and with a plan
  4. Both the client and planner benefit from the relationship - will result in a closer bond between the two 8
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Illusion of Control

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Believing you can control the outcome of an event when you cannot

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Money Illusion

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The inability to view the difference between nominal and real rates

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Conservatism bias

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Initially form a rational view, but fail to change that view as new info becomes available

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Hindsight Bias

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You have selective memory of past and have a tendency to remember your correct views and forget the errors

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Confirmation Bias

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You seek for new ways to confirm your belief

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Representativeness

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When considering choices in a Decision, you tend to recall a past experience similar to the present decision making situation - and assume one is like the other

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Mental accounting

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You ten times place money into “jars”

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Cognitive dissonance

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Conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors that cause a feeling of discomfort. This leads to changing some of your behaviors to reduce your discomfort and feel more balanced

Selective perception & decision making

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Self-attribution bias

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Take credit for success and blame others for mistakes

Self protecting and self embracing

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Anchoring and adjustment

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Irrational decisions based on it relation info

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Outcome bias

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Take a course of action based on the outcomes of prior events - ignoring current conditions

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Framing bias

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Process and respond to info based on how it was framed

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Recency bias

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Recent info is more important

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Herding

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Following other investors in similar decisions

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Loss Aversion

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You fear losses much more than you value gains, prefer avoiding losses to acquiring the same amount in gains

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Overconfidence

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You believe you control ranked events merely by acquiring more knowledge and consider your abilities to be much better than they are

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Self-control bias

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You lack self discipline and favor immediate gratification over long-term goals

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Status quo bias

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You are comfortable with the existing situation - this leads to an unwillingness to make changes

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Endowment bias

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You think an asset is worth more because you own it

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Regret aversion bias

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You do nothing out of excess fear that your decisions or actions could be wrong

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Affinity Bias

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You make decisions based on how you believe the outcomes will represent your interests and values

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Perception

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An individuals awareness of things, people, events, or ideas

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Judgement

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Involves making conclusions about what has been perceived

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Personalities

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Introvert / extrovert, driven by senses of intuition, thinking and feeling

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Visual learning

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Learning through graphs, photos, and other images

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Auditory learning

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Learning through hearing / discussion

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Kinesthetic

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Best using a hands on approach

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Economic and resource approach

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Clients are assumed to be rational and chose the most appropriate behavior give them appropriate counseling - FP is the agent of change

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Classical Economics approach

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Clients choose among alternatives based on objectively defined cost-benefit and risk-return trade offs. Increase savings / reduce exoenditures

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Strategic management approach

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Clients goals and values drive the relationship - SWOT is done early in FP process

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Cognitive Behavioral Approach

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Clients attitudes, beliefs, values influence their behavior. Planners use this approach to substitute negative beliefs for positive attitudes

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Psycho-analytic approach

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Based on psycho-analytic theory such as Freudian or Gestalt theory