Friday, January 22, 2016

A Highlight On Holistic Financial Planning

By Melissa Thompson


In most cases, human beings have goals that they would like to achieve in their lifetimes. Some even set timelines for these goals in which they strive to meet at all cost. Proper management of resources is one of the key aspect to use in order to achieve the set objectives. Some of them may include building a home, saving for a certain investment, planning for retirement among others. The process of undertaking holistic financial planning is discussed below.

Meeting these objectives have proved to be very difficult when undertaken at a personal level. The concerned are therefore forced to seek the services of advisors who will guide them through with all the requirements. They are therefore expected to establish and ensure that there exists a good client advisor relationship. This ensures that there exists a professional relationship between the two parties that observes all expected values.

A lot of data is required to undertake the planning. The clients must be willing to avail any required information to their advisers no matter how sensitive and private they may be. This includes all the financial records, written objects and the speculated period in which the process is expected to take. This promotes the existence of a mutual relationship as well as transparency in the roles of both parties.

This process also involves some financial planning recommendations. There must be a solid agreement on how these recommendations will be carried out in existence. This may bring about the need of involving other professionals such as an attorney and accountants. All these should be given equal attention since it is equally of great importance when it comes to making the plans viable.

These investment planning recommendations require a lot of close monitoring. The advisers involved should be responsible in ensuring that they monitor every step and progress toward the realization of the goals. They should report periodically, offer reviews and make any adjustments that may seem necessary without any hesitation.

There is a need to analyze and evaluate the financial status of the clients at a prior stage by the advisors. This gives them an opportunity to access the current situation of their client financially and determine whether it is possible to carry out the planning. Analysis may be carried out on the assets, liabilities as well as the cash flow just to mention but a few.

There is also the need of presenting the investment recommendation arrived at as well as any existing alternatives. These are based on the information provided and the likely hood of meeting the set objectives. Viable alternatives may come up after undertaking a review of the initial plans which may play a vital role in the realization of good results.

All the above discussed factors are aimed at ensuring that all the set objectives arrived at in the best way possible. This may, however, differ depending on the approach used by the concerned individual. This type of financial planning have proved to be of great significance, explaining why many have taken it up.




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