Shaun Almond Managing Director
Painting by Numbers It’s no surprise that people make poor decisions in their lives resulting in a need to turn to friends and family to bail them out. Indeed we had a Facebook post encouraging us to help out the son and daughter of old work colleagues in their hour of need – a contribution to a £10,000 Vet bill to aid the recovery of their pet dog. My heart says give £20, my brain says “what happened to the pet insurance policy?”
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So what is an advisers job? Some might say that it is to help consumers make the choices they would have made if they had paid full attention, and possessed full and relevant information. But life is not like that, people smoke cigarettes in the knowledge that they aren’t good for them, eat sweets understanding diabetes could be just round the corner, or even fail to save for retirement when income is not certain in old age. Life’s too short, and, in some cases it is, and there can be dire consequences for those they leave behind. So what is an adviser’s job? Perhaps it’s to paint the emotional pictures, after all, we are good at painting when it comes to the home buying process. Picture yourself in your
