“Money is not peace of mind. Money is not happiness. Money is, at its essence, that measure of a man’s choices”. In this feature, Claire Tyrrell takes a look at how financial advisers and wealth managers are depicted in TV and film. Spoiler alert: it's not really like the real thing...
Ozark protagonist Marty Byrde - played by Jason Bateman - is describing his view on the material of his profession in the first scene of the critically-acclaimed Netflix series. The 40-something financial adviser from Chicago is America's latest portrayal of the profession on screen and, in some ways, the most accurate. Aside from the fact Byrde's main client leads a major Mexican drug cartel, his character is probably as close as the television industry has come to depicting the real life equivalent (unless any of you readers have something to tell us?). Perhaps not because it so clo...
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