Analysis: Will 2025 be a gamechanger for financial advice and AI?
Although current use remains piecemeal, there are a range of products emerging that could have a huge impact on productivity levels
Financial Advice
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Simplify: Should financial advisers embrace AI?
Just 6% of IFAs currently use AI tools in their services to clients, according to data from Opinium
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‘Value for money’ delivery by advisers on the rise
Advisers and clients agree that ‘accessibility is paramount’
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Women saving £80,000 less for retirement than men
Men over 55 have £209,000 saved on average, compared to £128,000 for women
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SJP report finds key life events driving advice seeking
Nearly half of people (48%) who have accessed advice did so after a milestone
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Financial planning conversations key to sustainability goals
Sebastian Elwell, founder of Switchfoot Wealth, on ‘an incredible opportunity’
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Men first use an adviser six years earlier than women
Research also looked at how people find an adviser
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The importance of Big Data in financial advice
Jason Dewar, head of research at Dynamic Planner, explains its increasingly crucial role
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AML Group: 75% of investors see ChatGPT providing reliable investment advice in the future
Investor confidence at highest level since study launched in 2020
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Why we simply can’t lose the value of human relationships in ongoing advice
The industry and government need to collaborate to design a human-centric advice model, argues Simplify’s Carl Woodward
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‘Advice gap’ grows in 2024 with 12.4m people falling in
The headline number includes 9.2 million ‘low confidence non-advised’ investors
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How should risk tolerance assessments differ between accumulation and decumulation?
Oxford Risk’s Greg Davies digs into the key issues