The Financial Conduct Authority has reached a striking conclusion. After reviewing 172 investment disclosure documents, it found that almost all were written at a level too difficult for the average consumer to understand. Only 6% were considered to be written in plain English, and every single document reviewed fell below the level expected for someone … Continue reading If Even the FCA Says Investment Documents Are Too Hard to Understand… Perhaps It’s Time to Level the Playing Field
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Proportional Planning™: Support when it adds value. Agency remains yours.
The right support at the right time. For decades, we have framed financial planning as a choice between two extremes. Do it yourself. Or hand responsibility to an adviser. Neither reflects how most people actually make decisions. Most of us are capable of managing much of our own lives. We seek help when life becomes … Continue reading Proportional Planning™: Support when it adds value. Agency remains yours.
Academy OS Is Now Live: AI That Strengthens Human Agency
For the past year, I've been building something that has gradually become much bigger than a collection of AI tools. Today, I'm pleased to announce the launch of the new Academy OS page on the Academy of Life Planning website. This isn't simply a software catalogue. It represents a different philosophy about the relationship between … Continue reading Academy OS Is Now Live: AI That Strengthens Human Agency
When Clients Have AI Too
The profession is asking how advisers should use AI. But the more urgent question may be what advisers should do when clients have AI too. For the past two years, almost every conversation about artificial intelligence in financial planning has centred on the adviser. How can firms become more efficient? How can advisers automate administrative … Continue reading When Clients Have AI Too
Why the Future of Financial Planning Needs More Women (and Fewer Sales Targets)
There has never been a more interesting time for women to enter financial planning. But perhaps there has also never been a more important time to ask a different question. Not simply: "Which firm should I join?" But: "What kind of profession do I want to help build?" Recently, St. James's Place published an article … Continue reading Why the Future of Financial Planning Needs More Women (and Fewer Sales Targets)
What Is Your Financial Planning Business Really Optimising For?
The QBL Financial Planning Firm™ I actually think QBL Financial Planning Firm™ has the potential to become a recognised AoLP framework. It provides a memorable organisational counterpart to Total Wealth Planning. A Total Wealth Planner helps clients optimise across multiple forms of capital; a QBL Financial Planning Firm consciously organises its own business around the … Continue reading What Is Your Financial Planning Business Really Optimising For?
Andy Burnham will give mayors and councils responsibility for helping a “lost generation”
How to get nearly one million young people into work. Burnham to give mayors powers to help ‘lost generation’ of Neets. The regional devolution plan will shift Whitehall budgets to local authorities as unemployment among young people hits record high across the country. The story is about a significant proposed shift in how the UK … Continue reading Andy Burnham will give mayors and councils responsibility for helping a “lost generation”
The Great Unbundling of Financial Planning
What Happens When AI Can Do Most of the Regulated Work? For thirty years, financial planning and financial advice have largely travelled together. In practice, most consumers have experienced financial planning through the lens of regulated financial advice. The planner gathered information, analysed circumstances, made recommendations, arranged products, implemented transactions, reviewed outcomes, and managed ongoing … Continue reading The Great Unbundling of Financial Planning
What does the rise of AI girlfriends tell us about the state of human agency?
If millions of young people are choosing AI companions that never reject them, never challenge them, and never leave them, is the real story about artificial intelligence — or about what modern life is failing to provide? [Based on The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends, by Nicole Mowbray in The Telegraph Magazine. 6 … Continue reading What does the rise of AI girlfriends tell us about the state of human agency?
AoLP helps planners build better businesses, serve clients more effectively, and prepare for the future of planning in an age of AI and restored human agency.
The Academy of Life Planning helps planners become Total Wealth Planners by combining professional community, strategic support, AI-powered planning infrastructure, practical business development, and a philosophy centred on restoring human agency. Based on the mentorship sessions, Academy structure, Total Wealth OS roadmap, and the positioning we've been developing, I would describe the support provided to … Continue reading AoLP helps planners build better businesses, serve clients more effectively, and prepare for the future of planning in an age of AI and restored human agency.
