Financial Planning is a process that
involves managing your finances in a way that helps
you to achieve your life’s goals. Your goals
could include such things as buying your own house,
providing for your children’s education, ensuring
that you have sufficient funds saved to enable you
to retire when you want to, making sure that your
family is protected if you were to die, and enabling
your estate to pass on to your beneficiaries in the
most tax efficient way.
A Financial Planner should be a guide
and mentor through this process providing a structure
through a series of steps to enable you to assess
your current position, and provide the direction to
make sure that the financial decisions that you make
enable you to meet your goals.