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Guide to working effectively with investment partners

Explore our IFA research with specialist research firm NextWealth, helping your firm navigate Consumer Duty, build efficiencies within the business and improve how you add value to the client relationship.

Our IFA research

Amid new Consumer Duty regulations and increased demand for advice, financial advisers face a constricting budget of time. With increasing focus on cost, reducing risk, and improving efficiencies, how can financial advisers deliver better client outcomes?

We partnered with Next Wealth to understand this changing landscape as part of our ongoing commitment to the adviser community.

Guide to Working Effectively with Investment Partners provides practical actions on how advisers can work more effectively with DFMs while delivering a coherent and consistent customer journey.

Key themes in the guide include:

Advice firm investment strategy trends.
Due diligence checklist when selecting and reviewing a DFM partnership.
Ingredients for a successful working relationship with a DFM
Client and business benefits of investment partnerships.
Consumer Duty and its impact on tailored solutions.

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Guide to Working Effectively with Investment Partners

How to improve client outcomes

To better understand the reasons for working with external investment partners our Head of Strategic Partnerships, Tom Hawkins sat down with Heather Hopkins, Managing Director at NextWealth.

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Tom and Heather discuss Consumer Duty and the challenges facing advisers today, covering:

Evidencing fair value for clients
Due diligence best practices to help deliver an effective investment proposition
Tailored solution to support client readiness and the business risk framework
Culture and important considerations when reviewing potential partnerships
How to build efficiencies and professionalise your offering with an investment partner