WMA chief: What does the future hold for wealth managers?

What does the future hold for the wealth management industry?

The new chief executive of the Wealth Management Association looks at the impact of changing demographics, more sophisticated technology, and increasing financial awareness on the wealth management sector.

What financial advice would you give your younger self? It is a question with which we are all familiar and, as we have become financially wiser, we all would have saved a bit more and spent a little less if we had known better. While the past may indeed be a foreign country, in today’s world, the future looks even more unclear. Who would have thought 20 years ago we would be able to buy or sell shares, or manage our portfolios online? Ten years ago, no-one had heard of peer-to-peer lending or crowdfunding, yet now it is quickly becoming one of the quickest and most effective ways of ...