One of the quiet frustrations in financial planning is this:many clients understand what needs to change — yet still don’t move. The motivation is there.The logic is sound.The desire for a better future is real. And still… nothing happens. Insight isn’t the problem — overload is At a recent professional session, a powerful analogy was … Continue reading Untethering Action: Why Insight Alone Isn’t Enough — and How AI Can Help Clients Lift Off
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An Invitation to Experience the GAME Plan
Why AI GAME Plan v3.5 Is Being Shared Freely with the Academy Community For a long time, I’ve tried to explain the GAME Plan. I’ve explained the framework.I’ve explained the methodology.I’ve explained how it differs from traditional financial planning. And yet, something kept nagging at me. Because the truth is this: The GAME Plan can’t … Continue reading An Invitation to Experience the GAME Plan
AI Is Taking Jobs — But It Can Also Create Wealth. The Choice Is Ours.
Why the Total Wealth Plan is the missing bridge between technological disruption and human empowerment. Introduction: The Alarm Bell Britain Can’t Ignore According to business editor Jon Rees at The Times, artificial intelligence is now costing more jobs in the UK than it is creating. Research from Morgan Stanley found that UK firms using AI … Continue reading AI Is Taking Jobs — But It Can Also Create Wealth. The Choice Is Ours.
Why the Hybrid Total Wealth Planner Will Win in the Age of AI
And why the future of planning is human-led, AI-powered, and life-first Artificial intelligence is changing everything. It can draft emails.Build financial models.Summarise documents.Generate plans in seconds. And yet… It still can’t decide what kind of life is worth building.It can’t sit with someone in grief.It can’t hold moral complexity.It can’t help a human being choose … Continue reading Why the Hybrid Total Wealth Planner Will Win in the Age of AI
Cross the Bridge: Join the Total Wealth Plan Beta and Shape the Future of Planning
The future of financial planning isn’t product-led.It isn’t adviser-centric.And it definitely isn’t built around hourly dependency. It’s client-empowered, AI-supported, and life-centred. And it’s already happening. If you’re a financial adviser standing at the bridge between the old model and what comes next, this is your invitation to help shape it — and to stay meaningfully … Continue reading Cross the Bridge: Join the Total Wealth Plan Beta and Shape the Future of Planning
Why This Study Quietly Changes Everything for Financial Planners
What Human Capital Inequality Teaches Us About the Future of Advice For decades, financial planning has rested on a comfortable assumption: If people have access to money and good products, they’ll make good long-term decisions. The study “Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth” by Castelló-Climent and Doménech gently — but decisively — dismantles … Continue reading Why This Study Quietly Changes Everything for Financial Planners
Are We Educating the Next Generation — or Recruiting Them Into a Broken System?
When a profession celebrates widening access, it must also ask a harder question: access to what? This week, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) and Personal Finance Society (PFS) announced that over 6,600 young people have taken part in their virtual work experience programmes since 2023. The story is being framed as a success: Diverse participation … Continue reading Are We Educating the Next Generation — or Recruiting Them Into a Broken System?
AI, Ethics, and the Advice Line: How Total Wealth Planners Stay on the Right Side of Regulation
AI, Ethics, and the Advice Line How Total Wealth Planners Stay on the Right Side of Both FCA and CMA Regulation Using AI as a client-empowerment tool — without drifting into regulated advice or consumer law risk Artificial intelligence is fast becoming one of the most powerful tools in the Total Wealth Planner’s toolkit. Used … Continue reading AI, Ethics, and the Advice Line: How Total Wealth Planners Stay on the Right Side of Regulation
AI Cash-Flow Planning vs Traditional Lifetime Cash-Flow Tools
A reflection for planners navigating what comes next For decades, lifetime cash-flow planning tools have played a central role in professional financial planning. They brought structure, consistency, and a sense of rigour to conversations about the future. Many advisers built their confidence — and their practices — around them. So it’s understandable that the emergence … Continue reading AI Cash-Flow Planning vs Traditional Lifetime Cash-Flow Tools
AI Isn’t Eating Your Lunch — It’s Changing Who Brings It to the Table
Introducing the Total Wealth Plan™ licensing options A quiet shift in how clients prepare for advice More and more clients are arriving having already used AI to: explore scenarios compare options question fees and sense-check decisions Not because they want to bypass their adviser —but because AI now gives them agency before the meeting. For … Continue reading AI Isn’t Eating Your Lunch — It’s Changing Who Brings It to the Table
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