Why should advisers be interested in financial wellbeing?

Started the Initiative for Financial Wellbeing

Hannah Godfrey
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In his latest column for Professional Adviser, Initiative for Financial Wellbeing (IFW) founder Chris Budd looks at what is financial wellbeing anyway, and why advisers might want to investigate further.

There is a lot of talk about financial wellbeing at the moment. I wrote The Financial Wellbeing Book back in 2015 and I've been writing this column for a while now. A bunch of us have started the Initiative for Financial Wellbeing (IFW), and we have our conference on May 14th. There are also plenty of other great initiatives and programmes around at the moment which are seeking your attention. You may very well therefore ask yourself this question: Financial wellbeing - why should I? What's In It For You Here is the logic to why I think financial wellbeing should be at the heart of...

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