Topic 1 - Your Clients Story Flashcards
Money Scripts
Are the unconcious beliefs we have about money. These drives all our financial behaviours and is different among people.
Forms from our earliest encounters with money
4 types of Money Scripts
Money Avoidance
Money Worship
Money Status
Money Vigilence
Money Avoidance
Believe money is bad and that they do not deserve money
Money Worship
Key to happiness and that they can never have enough
Money Status
Link self worth to net worth
Outward displays of wealth and risk of overspending
Money Vigilance
Watchful of their financial health and believe it is important to save and work for money
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Physiological > Safety > Love and belonging > Esteem > Self Actualisation
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs - Physiological (Financial)
Requird for life (day to day living expenses)
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs - Safety (Financial)
Employment Securing and Insurance
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs - Love and Being (Financial)
Security of others - goals such as marriage, upsizing, education planning
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs - Esteem (Financial)
Passive Income
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs - Self-Actualisation (Financial)
Independance
Value added of Financial Advice
Asset Allocation Rebalancing Cost effective implementation Tax Efficiency Behavioural Coaching
Describe 3 reasons identified by Dr Somers that clients may seek out expert advice.
- To reduce complexity
- To take action
- To help make better trade-offs
- To increase confidence
- To feel safer
- To offload unpleasantness
- To have someone to blame
- To make someone else happy
- To receive encouragement
- To save time
Why is understanding the clients’ real reasons for seeking financial advice, beyond seeking answers to financial problems, an important aspect of the value proposition of a Financial Adviser?
The reason clients seek advice are important because it highlights how the intention of an advice-seeker is often not actually about the advice-answer itself. Which in turn, helps to explain why clients don’t necessarily follow through on “the answer” when the recommendation is provided to them.
If the advisor doesn’t consider the true reason for why a prospective client is seeking out their advice, it’s hard to provide a service which meets the clients’ needs or expectations.