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Garraway launches Decumulation Model Portfolio using Dynamic Planner’s Risk Managed Decumulation standards
Advisers using Dynamic Planner’s Risk Managed Decumulation Service (RMD) can now access the Garraway Decumulation Model Portfolio Service. The portfolio is the first decumulation portfolio built specifically to meet Dynamic Planner’s RMD Standard. It has been created using Dynamic Planner’s leading risk-rated portfolio guidelines and assigned a risk rating of 5. Chris Jones, Proposition Director, […]

Dynamic Planner creates Sustainability Discussion Guide for advisers
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), Dynamic Planner has created a white paper style Sustainability Discussion Guide for financial advisers to use with their clients. The foreword has been written by Dr Ben Caldecott, founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford.

Dynamic planner’s Louis Williams named Future Leader in Knowledge Transfer Partnership Awards
Dynamic Planner’s Head of Psychology & Behavioural Insights Louis Williams, has been named as one of the eight Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Awards’ Future Leader for 2021 Winners. Louis has worked with Dynamic Planner for two years, spearheading a cutting-edge behavioural science and investment initiative with Henley Business School, an alliance formed via the Government-backed […]

EQ Investors portfolios now risk profiled on Dynamic Planner
Advice firms can now benefit from EQ Investors range of solutions being risk profiled on Dynamic Planner. EQ Investors (EQ) is an award-winning B Corp discretionary fund manager focused on sustainable and impact investing and has been running sustainable portfolios since 2012. EQ offers two sustainable solutions for advisers: Positive Impact (active) and Future Leaders […]

How does our new sustainable investing questionnaire work?
By Louis Williams, Head of Psychology & Behavioural Insights Advice firms aim to optimise their clients’ investment returns. But the potential impact sustainable investing can have can be misjudged, alongside the importance clients place on returns and their sustainability preferences. As sustainable investing, as a subject, considers managing risk, doing well by doing good, reduced […]

Dynamic planner launches industry’s first psychometric sustainable investing questionnaire
Dynamic Planner is set to launch the industry’s first psychometric Sustainable Investing questionnaire. Launching on 7th May to all advice firms and clients using Dynamic Planner, the ESG investing questionnaire provides a simple, yet academically robust solution to the challenges advisers face when talking to their clients about environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and […]

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good as big ESG picture becomes clear
Sustainability and its implications for risk and for the suitability of investment portfolios is now centre stage for all parties across financial services. Environmental, social and governance factors potentially having a negative effect on the value of investments are all in the spotlight. For example, the instances of workforce standards in a company’s supply chain […]

Sustainable investing – Why it’s good to talk to clients now
What is driving growth today in sustainable investing? How can advice firms demonstrate value to their clients here? And what is making some advisers wary of talking about sustainable investing or ESG? Naomi English, Head of ESG Product Strategy at global giant MSCI, delivered a timely keynote at the 2021 Dynamic Planner Conference, answering those […]

FCA investment pathways: A risk or an opportunity for advice firms?
On 1 February 2021, the FCA’s ‘investment pathways’ were introduced and while consequences are keenest, in this context, for non-advised investors, advice firms and their clients too are not unaffected. This regulatory development can be spun as a risk to firms potentially losing valuable new business. Or an opportunity for firms to separate themselves and […]

Dynamic Planner launches sustainable investing insight
Whole of market MSCI ESG fund research now available in Dynamic Planner to help advisers match people to sustainable portfolios Helping advisers solve the ‘mystery’ of sustainable investing and ensure clients fully understand both ESG risk and opportunity 3 February 2021: Advisers using Dynamic Planner now have whole of market MSCI ESG fund research at […]