The proliferation of financial wellness has raised client expectations and demands for democratized advice and planning support, requiring wealth management firms and financial advisors to recognize and better position their offerings to meet these rising client needs. Wealth managers have a unique opportunity to take financial planning to a new level of maturity and help drive better outcomes for millions of end clients.
This Impact Report examines the financial planning status quo in the U.S. and the challenges financial institutions’ need to navigate to get to where many firms aim to and need to be with financial planning.
Clients of Datos Insights’ Wealth Management service can download this report.
This report mentions Bank of America, Barclays, eMoney, Envestnet, HSBC, InvestCloud, Monzo, Morgan Stanley, Personal Capital, RightCapital, Starling Bank, Stash Wealth, UBS, Waze, and Wells Fargo.
About the Author

Andrew Besheer
Andrew Besheer is the Practice Director for Wealth Management at Datos Insights, collaborating with the Advisors of the Wealth Management practice to grow the business and deliver exceptional insights and services to clients. Andy has a passion for helping clients define go-to-market strategies for wealth management and wealthtech as well as digital transformation, operational efficiency, and process management. Andy started...
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David Himmel
David Himmel is a Senior Associate at Datos Insights. In addition to broad support for the Wealth Management practice, he produces the team’s regular market sizing and benchmarking reports, and covers how channels within wealth management are evolving and converging. David brings prior experience in research and consulting to Datos Insights, primarily at the intersection of financial services and technology, and...