Financial Performance in the New Behavioral Economy White Paper

The winds of change are moving fast through the modern economy, and this includes the financial services industry. What we are seeing is the emergence of the “New Behavioral Economy” – where the client is king and behavioral finance is in. This means the approach to providing [...]

Wealth Management Psych Out

In “Wealth Management Psych Out”, Donna Mitchell explains how behavioral finance has moved from theory to practice, informing tools and techniques for connecting with wealthy clients.
Included in the article is an interview from Hugh Massie, President of DNA Behavior International and a former financial advisor for wealthy families and entrepreneurs. He discusses how he was [...]

Self Esteem Impacts Financial Performance

One of my strong beliefs is that confidence sustains your performance. If you lose your confidence this will have a negative impact on your financial decision-making, and all other decision-making. The reality is that when your confidence goes down then you can become pressured to make poor decisions. Your emotions will be higher and rationality [...]

Advisors Can Differentiate By Integrating Behavioral Finance Strategies

Recently, Merrill Lynch and Capgemini have issued a very important research study which demonstrates how much investors confidence has been eroded by the turbulent markets. Investors are still very wary of the future.  Click Here to read the article.
The article points out that the following:

Investors want a more active relationship with their advisors, including a [...]

Transform Your Client Experience to Grow

For advisors, growing your financial planning business is about getting more of the right clients who you can profitably serve on a sustained basis. This means you must have financial planning clients who will pay for the value you provide and will allow you to do so efficiently and with minimum [...]

New Financial DNA Developments for Addressing Risk Tolerance

Risk tolerance is a much talked about area in financial planning and it is one core component of an investor’s unique financial behavior – what we call their Financial DNA. It is so fundamental that we are always talking about it and making decisions with reference to it.
A huge difficulty has [...]

The Big Question

Last week I participated in a learning program for fast growth businesses conducted by Verne Harnish (founder of Gazelles, Inc) who is world renowned as “The Growth Guy”. Verne has run training workshops for and coached many great entrepreneurs all over the world. He has a very straightforward approach to helping [...]

Shirt Sleeves to Shirt Sleeves in 3 Generations

In recent years there has been a lot written about how wealth created by the first generation (the entrepreneur) is lost by the third generation. Often the second generation has also added to the wealth. Then the third generation has lost it through being irresponsible, idle or simply making poor decisions.
Research from a range of [...]

Know Thy Investments

The primary foundations of Financial DNA are “Know Thyself” and Know Thy Client”. However, what I have not spoken up much before about is “Know Thy Investments”. For both the advisor and the client this is absolutely critical to successful investing. Who at some point has been caught in an investment they did not fully [...]

Understanding Client DNA Behavior Under Pressure

When I was a financial planner and even before that a CPA, I had regularly observed that people’s behavior and decision-making patterns changed when they were under pressure; the pressure often being caused by money and relationships. This observation was fundamental to my thinking when I was building the Financial DNA Discovery Process with my [...]