Financial Planners

"Financial planners are like dentists: they may occasionally inflict pain, but in the end, you will be better off for following their advice!"

Whoever wrote these lines must have either been a financial planner or someone who relied heavily on planners for finance management. We all know that planning our finances is vital. Why, then, do most people stall the process? Perhaps visions of being buried under balance sheets and calculators plague you, and ultimately tempt you to put off your money matters to "some other day"!

For people with such visions and worries, there is only one saviour - a financial planner. Financial planners specialise in solving money messes. They plan and manage your finances so that you can better your prospects for the future. Financial planners help you to establish your short-term and long-term financial goals and determine ways to meet these goals.

Financial planners provide finance advice of any nature, and in order to do so, they delve into every realm of your financial status. They interact with one's legal advisors, bankers, accountants, and the like to understand a person's aspirations and targets. As such, they even conduct interviews and surveys to establish an accurate client profile, complete with financial goals, investments, taxes, insurance coverage, income, retirement schemes, medical plans, and other relevant data. From these, financial planners derive a workable plan for finance management. This plan features suggestions and recommendations for a person in the form of dos and don'ts, strategies to follow regarding insurance, asset management, investments, property planning, retirement, and more.

Mind you, financial planning is necessary for each and every one of us - we often make the mistake of thinking that only big spenders or the super-rich need financial planners! The truth of the matter is, financial planning is a way of life, something you acquire as a lifelong habit. Financial planners can make this easy for you, as quite often, money management becomes arduous and complicated if your know-how on finance is weak. What's more, financial planners are adept at tailoring customised strategies, to best suit a range of needs and lifestyles.

Financial planners serve for the ultimate desire - peace of mind that one's money is in safe hands. At the end of the day, a penny saved is a penny earned, and a financial planner is someone who can chalk out the most convenient way for you to save those pennies!

Dan Noyes

Financial Planning