Wealth Management/ Individual financial advisory with respect to individual clients has occupied center stage especially due to the attendant effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Clients as well as advisors have had to react to these changes. This is the first part of a two part presentation that will assist advisors/ individual wealth managers anticipate and react/address client management in a customised manner

1. THE FINANCIAL
ADVISOR
Advisors need a handbook that can help them deal with the
behavioral
and emotional sides of investing so that they can help their
clients
understand why they have trouble sticking to a long-term
program of
investing. ~ Wiley; Behavioural Finance & Wealth
Management

2. … a general term that refers to one who assists/helps clients
manage your finances. Maintaining a systematic (consistent)
approach to advising the clients.
The Financial Advisor is..
… a professional who suggests and renders financial services to
clients based on their financial situation.
… one who provides clients with specialist advice on how to
manage their money.

3. Assist clients to understand their financial health i.e. assessment –
Questionnaires, interviews/discussion of financial assets and liabilities
including goals etc
ROLES OF THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Synthesize client information for aid in constructing a comprehensive
financial plan: Advisors use specialised knowledge and expertise to
construct personalised financial plans that aim to achieve the financial
goals of clients – simulations for potentially best and worst case
scenarios
Plan development and formulation of an action plan
Financial advisors adopt a holistic approach to planning for clients that
include savings, budget, insurance, tax strategies, investment horizon,
etc
Advisors check in with clients on a regular basis to re-evaluate clients
current situation, future goals and plans – Financial monitoring
Change Impact analysis – marriage, divorce, birth of a new born,
relocation, promotions, buying/selling a home

4. RELATIONSHIP:
THE CLIENT &
ADVISOR
The Advisor..
Understand your client’s financial goals.
Try to understand the psychology and the emotions
underlying the decisions behind your clients the
goals. Tapping into your clients’ thought mode
Maintain a systematic (consistent)/
methodical approach to advising clients.
Aids record keeping, measurements and trends
Deliver what the client expects / do your
best to.
Address your clients expectations in the service
proffered
Relationship should be mutually beneficial
to both the client and advisor.
practitioners lose clients that feel their advisors
“DONOT” understand, or attempt to understand,
their financial objectives
Endeavor to be aware of holistic client

5. SAMPLE QUESTIONS: … FROM CLIENTS
Why is this fund not up as much as that fund?”
“The market has not done well the past quarter—what should we
do?”
“Why is asset allocation so important? …why am I spreading risk?”
“Why should I invest in alternative investments?”
“Why aren’t we investing in alternative investments?”
“Why don’t we take the same approach to investing in college
moneys and retirement money?”
“Cant we just buy fewer stocks in order to get better returns?”
How do I ensure my descendants will not squander what I leave
behind?

6. CLIENTS: TYPES

7. CONFIDENT
ADVENTURER
INDIVIDUALIST
IMPETUOUS
CAREFUL
CELEBRITY
GAURDIAN
ANXIOUS
Five-Way Model: Client
Types
STRAIGHT
ARROW

8. FIVE-WAY MODEL: CLIENT TYPES
The Adventurer—People who are willing to put it all on one bet and go for it because they have
confidence. They are difficult to advise, because they have their own ideas about investing. They are
willing to take risks, and they are volatile clients from an investment counsel point of view. THE RISK
TAKER!
The Celebrity—Love to be where the action is. …wary of being left out. Most really do not have their
own ideas about investments. They may have their own ideas about other things in life, but not
investing. As a result, they fall prey to practice of maximum broker turnovers.
The Individualist—These persons tend to go their own way and are typified by the small
businessperson or an independent professional, e.g. lawyer, CPA, or engineer. These are trying to
make their own decisions in life, carefully going about things, having a certain degree of confidence
about them, but also being careful, methodical, and analytical. These are the clients advisors seek! —
rational investors with whom the portfolio manager can talk sense.
The Guardian—Typically as people get older and begin considering retirement, they approach this
personality profile. They are careful and a little bit worried about their money. They recognize that
they face a limited earning time span and have to preserve their assets. They are definitely not
interested in volatility or excitement. Guardians lack confidence in their ability to forecast the future
or to understand where to put money, so they look for guidance.
The Straight Arrow—These people are so well balanced, they cannot be placed in any specific
quadrant, so they fall near the center. On average this group of clients is the average investor, a
relatively balanced composite of each of the other four investor types, and by implication a group
willing to be exposed to medium amounts of risk.

9. TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS
Inverstor classifications can also be along three lines:
The Emotional
Average performance Seeker: desire for Index-like
returns
Value Seeker: increase allocations when asset valuations
are bargains and decrease allocations when asset
valuations are high.

10. EMOTIONAL
INVESTOR
…buys when everyone else is buying and sells when everyone else is
selling.
Effectively, like to be validated by other people’s actions.
Usually represented by the investor who listens to the media, culture, and
lets their emotions cause them to make bad decisions.
Usually, they underperform the market averages because they buy at
above average prices and sell at below average prices. In other words,
they buy high and sell low.
They normally end up disillusioned, and attimes bitter, believing the
market is rigged. Most often end up quitting or eventually lose much of
their money.

11. most popular and universally accepted type of investing strategy.
Looks to invest passively in funds that follow indices in a bid to
receive a “fair” or average rate of return.
Normally, does well in bull markets but poorly in bear markets.
Passive management produces average rates of return less
expenses and fees.
Best for investors who lack the time, knowledge, or desire to
invest time and effort into individual investment opportunities.
… nothing wrong with this choice, it is a choice.
The Index Investor – Passive Management

12. VALUE INVESTOR
Deliberate
attempts to buy
investment
assets far
enough below
their intrinsic
value as to
provide a
margin of
safety.
Requires effort,
research, and
an ability to not
let the culture
tell you what to
do.
Value investors
make allocation
decisions based
on price and
value -
Purchasing assets
for less than their
real worth lowers
risk and
increases the
probability of
higher than
average returns.

13. THE FINANCIAL
PLAN

14. The Financial Plan: Definition
‘- a document containing a person's current money situation and long-
term monetary goals, as well as strategies to achieve those goals.’;
Investopedia
“a comprehensive evaluation of an individual's current pay and future
financial state by using current known variables to predict future
income, asset values and withdrawal plans.” - Wikipedia

15. Financial Planning: the act
- involves analysis of clients’ age, wealth, career, marital status,
taxation status, estate considerations, risk tolerance, investment
objectives, legal concerns and other matters. – csi global
Keys: …in building a Financial Plan.
•Achievability
•Accommodation of changes in lifestyle and income levels
•Should not be intimidating in terms of client perception
•Should provide for not only the necessities but also some luxuries or
rewards – contingency options

16. Financial Planning: the process
•Interview the Client – Establish the Client-Advisor Engagement.
•Data Gathering and Determining Goals and Objectives.
•Identify financial problems and constraints.
•Develop a written financial plan.
•Implement or co-ordinate the implementation of the recommendations.
•Periodically review and revise the plan and make new recommendations.

17. Principles For Financial Planning Success
Think long-term with goals and investing.
Spend less than you earn.
Maintain liquidity (an emergency savings).
Minimize the use of debt.
Consider personal habits and circumstances in building the plan e.g the
impact of culture and tradition on spending patterns

18. Issues To Be Covered In A Financial
Plan
•Individual client Savings And Investing levels / abilities – Risk &
Return ability/capacity
•Paying Down Debt: Credit Cards, Mortgage, Line of Credits,
Overdrafts etc.
•Insurance – health care, Disability (keyman), Term Life insurance
•Taxes: investing behind a tax shield (RRSP), offshore Investing
•Retirement Planning – annuities, pension plans etc.
•Estate Planning- wills & Trusts (Living wills), letter of Instruction,
legacy concept & bequeathal – designation of beneficiaries and
administrators including the attendant legal implications, Asset
lists, Power of Attorney (POW), Issues Of Probate etc.

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Sourced & Compiled by: Olufemi
Feyisitan
Compiled and assembled by: Olufemi
Feyisitan