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The more behavioural finance is applied to financial advice, the more it’s misapplied by firms prioritising shortcuts over science and surface sheen over depth of understanding.

Adopting a behaviourally conscious approach to client understanding, enabling personalised advice at scale, is the best way to upgrade customer satisfaction with their wealth-management experience.

The partnership between a wealth management firm and its tech is crucial. The right software can support smooth-functioning and compliant advice, providing a robust framework within which the adviser’s art can flourish.

Firms who harness evolving technology most effectively unlock the ability to serve more investors, more consistently, and more personally.

Centralised investment and retirement propositions can enhance client outcomes through streamlining advisory services. However, they also come with inherent dangers of prioritising a consistent product over a consistent approach for dealing with individual differences.

Download the Ultimate Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance in Financial Advice.

Oxford Risk’s Investor Compass Risk Suitability solution has been awarded four stars at the 2022 FTA Financial Adviser Service Awards. Find out more about the win in our blog.

The Times & The Sunday Times Senior Money Reporter, Imogen Tew undertakes a full journalistic review of Oxford Risk’s Financial Personality Assessment. Find out more now.

Measuring investor ESG preferences has gone from a nice-to-have to a must-have. Without behavioural forethought, how to do it risks prioritising the false economy of easy pigeonholing over a genuinely valuable understanding of an investor’s preferences.

The first FCA Consumer Duty (PS22/9) deadline date is looming: firms will need to have agreed and be able to demonstrate their implementation plans by the end of October 2022.