After each Meeting Owen James publish 'The Findings', a document that encapsulates and shares the key issues and topics discussed on the day.
Each section below summarises the different roundtable sessions and covers an array of industry driven topics.
The Findings are listed in Event date order, but don't just look for an event you attended, explore the research facility that gives you access to topics addressed at all our other Meetings – past and present.
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On the basis that you should never "let a good crisis go to waste", the best opportunity to really demonstrate your value is at a time of market uphea
On the basis that you should never "let a good crisis go to waste", the best opportunity to really demonstrate your value is at a time of market upheaval so did you provide value for money? Both the FCA and your clients want to know.
17 September 2020A Meeting of Minds - Advisory Distributors - 17 September 2020
Back OfficecostCOVIDDigitalEngagementFinancial AdvisoryTechnology
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Achieving your expected growth rate. Identifying the business activities which yield results
Leveraging data from two major studies commissioned by Dimensional in 2017, participants will take part in focused discussions covering the actions that global advisory firms are taking to achieve their expected revenue growth now and in the future. Drawing on the study results of 1,300 global advisory firms, and 19,000 advisory firm clients, the discussion will cover business development and the marketing practices that firms report they undertake, and which of these activities yields results.
A Meeting of Minds Advisory Distributors - June 2018
Data ScienceDigitalEngagementFinancial AdvisoryJourneyManagement InformationRecruitmentRetentionTraining
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AI - is it you or the algorithm?
Artificial intelligence is making rapid inroads into financial services. We are already seeing algorithms taking over the more basic levels of financial advice and they will increasingly be moving up the food-chain, from specific tasks, such as asset allocation, to fully-fledged turnkey solutions. How should client-facing firms adapt to the new model?
A Meeting of Minds Advisory Distributors - June 2018
Artificial IntelligenceBehavioursBrandDigitalEngagementExperienceFinancial AdvisoryOutsourcingSegementationTrainingTrends
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Client data – ensuring it makes a difference
To financial advisory firms strategic business planning is paramount. Whether buying, selling, building or retiring, it is essential that Financial Advisers understand their business objectives and have an effective strategy to achieve them.
Winning Advisers - The Regional Roadshow - April 2018 - Birmingham
Artificial IntelligenceBehavioursData ScienceDigitalEngagementExperienceFinancial AdvisoryJourneyManagement Information
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Personal finance goes digital. How ready are you? - October
Personal financial management is on the cusp of a fundamental transformation. For many years, the traditional face-to-face advisory model has provided a service to the minority of the population who can afford it. A confluence of factors including regulatory change and technological progress are now combining to enable a new means of customer engagement. With banking services slowly but surely moving towards being mobile-first, digital innovators have wealth management in their sights as an industry that is ripe for disruption. Meanwhile, a shift in pensions responsibility from the corporate to the individual and the rise of the gig economy has put retirement affordability, and more generally personal financial wellbeing firmly in the spotlight. While traditional financial advice remains unattainable for most, a suite of digital products and services are being developed to fill the gap. Disrupt or be disrupted- attempts to create new, viable business models for the digital age will flounder unless people and organisations are willing to disrupt themselves.
A Meeting of Minds Winning Advisers - October 2018
AdviceDigitalEngagementExperienceFinancial AdvisoryMobile
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So you want to go digital?
CRMDigitalDigital platformDigitalisationEngagementFinancial adviserFinancial AdvisoryFinancial servicesStrategyTechnology
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The future of advice in the UK
With increased regulatory demands, new agile technologies, a generational shift in consumer behaviour and an unprecedented transfer of wealth beginning, what does a future advice business look like to become sustainable?
A Meeting of Minds Advisory Distributors - June 2018
AlternativesBrandCultureDigitalEngagementExperienceFinancial AdvisoryJourneyMobileReputationalRiskSocial Media
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The Future of Platforms
With platforms being a market that has seen significant growth in the last five years, doubling from £250bn to £500bn assets under administration (AUA), with more customers than ever deciding to use a platform to manage their money, what do we think about the FCA's proposed remedies to improve competition? Is it encouraging that the FCA has recognised the important role of platforms in the value chain? How can the market truly deliver the benefits it is intended to provide? What do you want from a platform – a transactional hands-off relationship or a long-term, deeper relationship with a business that can offer practice management support for the growth of your business for the benefit of your client? Platforms hold a huge amount of data on fund flows, contribution levels, withdrawals, dividend reinvestment, cash management etc – and are uniquely placed to see trends across clients at an aggregate level across all advisers within your business, all advisers in your region and across all advisers using the platform –in total – what value might this platform insight be of to you as a business owner and for your advisers and paraplanners?
A Meeting of Minds Winning Advisers - October 2018
AdviceAdvisory investment servicesArtificial IntelligenceDigitalEngagementExperienceFinancial AdvisoryMobileTrends
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Where have we got to with closing the advice gap?
According to some recent research from NS&I, 70% of financial advisers are willing to advise people with portfolios of less than £50,000 but 71% of Britons would only consider consulting a financial adviser if they had more than £25,000 to invest. So just what is commercially feasible from your point of view? Do we know at what level people feel they can justify the cost of financial advice?
A Meeting of Minds Advisory Distributors - June 2018
Back OfficeBrandCorporate GovernanceCultureDigitalEmerging MarketsEngagementEquitiesFinancial AdvisoryMacro TrendsManagement InformationReputationalSecuritySocial Media