If you have money to invest that needs to be organised in a portfolio, you look for a portfolio manager. If you have goals in life that need money to satisfy them, you look for a financial planner. But suppose you realise that, actually, the goals and portfolios should go together, with a single adviser?
With goal-based wealth management, they would. Every client would have one or more portfolios, each designed uniquely to deliver specific quantified outcomes, as defined by the client, for a particular purpose. If any two clients had the same portfolio, it would only be because the goals happened to be defined alike. Progress would be measured forwards, towards outcomes, rather than just backwards, at what has happened.
Goal-based wealth management is what we do at Fowler Drew. Because it did not exist in the private wealth market, we needed to create it. We did this by combining
The two are completely integrated in our processes and our skills and qualifications.