'Financial wellbeing is all style and no substance for some businesses'… It's The Pro Adviser Podcast

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Hannah Godfrey
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Financial wellbeing appears to be growing in popularity, with hundreds of individuals from the adviser community getting involved in new enterprise the Initiative for Financial Wellbeing.

Professional Adviser news editor Hannah Godfrey is joined by Chris Budd, who is one of the founders of the Initiative for Financial Wellbeing, as well as a professional podcaster, author, and chairman of Ovation Finance. The two discuss financial wellbeing and its place in financial advice, as well as some occasions in which is it used merely as "gloss" by firms that lack any serious wellbeing substance. You can listen to the podcast - and all our other episodes - through iTunes and Spotify by searching for The Pro Adviser Podcast or Professional Adviser in their respective podcas...

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