Wealth Management: Should I Hire A Wealth Manager?
Finding the best way to maintain your wealth can be challenging, especially if you plan to invest and continuously grow your wealth. There is a vast number of options for investment, each with its own pros and cons, and knowing which one is best for you and your family isn’t easy. Throw in the added stresses of tax and inheritance laws, and managing your wealth becomes increasingly confusing.
With the help of a wealth manager, you can save time and money, whilst giving yourself complete peace of mind knowing that your assets are secure.
What Is A Wealth Manager?
A wealth manager is a qualified, certified and experienced financial professional that takes a holistic approach to managing your wealth and investments. Wealth managers help individual clients, corporate clients, charities, and estates and trusts. They use their experience, knowledge and skillset to sustain and grow your wealth through a combination of financial planning and smart investments.
What Are The Benefits Of Hiring A Wealth Manager?
To help you decide on whether or not a wealth manager is right for you, let’s take a look at some of the key benefits of hiring a wealth manager:
1. Smart Investments
Making smart investments is an excellent way to grow your wealth. And with the help of a wealth manager, you can diversify and build your investment portfolio with investments that have been handpicked by experienced financial experts that have your best interests at heart.
Wealth managers will happily provide advice on whether they believe an investment is going to be smart and they will advise against investments if they think it is in your best interest. Ultimately, the decision is always your own, but with a wealth manager on hand to help, you are bound to make smarter investments.
2. Risk Management
Investing comes with risk and making a bad investment is easily done (and hard to reverse!). Wealth managers cannot promise “risk-free” investments (nobody can!), but they can provide you with investment options that are tailored to your finances, whilst clearly highlighting the risks and potential gains of each investment. They also use their knowledge and experience to guide you on the best investments for your portfolio.
3. Personalised Approach
Wealth managers take a personalised and holistic approach to financial planning and investing. They do not offer a “one size fits all” solution, instead, they provide unbiased financial advice based solely on your circumstances. This includes taking into consideration your current finances, income streams, expenses, investment portfolio and long-term financial goals. Clients are offered solutions that are tailored to their needs and goals for the future.
4. Save Time & Have Peace Of Mind
Wealth management can be incredibly time-consuming, especially if you are seeking smart investments. By hiring a wealth manager, all of the hard work is done for you, so you can spend the time on other priorities, such as your family, career or hobbies.
5. Other Services
Wealth managers do so much more than manage your finances. They can also help with other services, such as tax planning, estate planning, planning for retirement and more. In addition, your wealth manager will have tried and trusted key contacts should you need them, such as accountants, wills and probate solicitors and more.
Pranab Bhandari is an Editor of the Financial Blog “Financebuzz”. Apart from writing informative financial articles for his blog, he is a regular contributor to many national and international publications namely Tweak Your Biz, Growth Rocks ETC.
