Case study: Large Firms

Finli Group

Dynamic Planner has led the way on communication with clients, in a way which is engaging and human. Bearing in mind, the financial services industry has spent the last 20 years going in the opposite direction
Andy Thompson, Chief Executive Officer
Finli Group
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Q: How did Dynamic Planner help you solve your key challenge?

Our vision at Solomon was to build a scaled advice and wealth management business, on a national basis, driving a consistency of quality, a consistency of service and a consistency of client outcomes. We really wanted to focus on, through the use of technology, greater client education and greater client engagement – compared to a traditional IFA scenario, where that previously may have been sporadic and dependent on who your IFA was.

What was our challenge, achieving that? First, that vision we had isn’t how advisers have traditionally evolved in our industry. They have been used to doing things their way, to a large degree. They perhaps have not been particularly tech-savvy. And they have been wedded to what technology they have used.

There has been no suitable technology solution in a box for advisers and for their clients. There was really no CRM available which could communicate with clients and articulate what as an adviser you were trying to achieve, in an appealing way. What Dynamic Planner provided us with was a best-of-breed solution, to solve that need that we had.

     Key Dynamic Planner benefits:

  • Adoption of best-of-breed financial planning technology
  • Accelerated onboarding, expedited by improved UX and outputs
  • More efficient operating model, lowering business costs
  • Consistent communication clients grow to value
  • Drive deeper engagement with clients

Q: How does Dynamic Planner enable you to scale as a business?

Moving to new technology is painful. Therefore, you have to be able to show people the advantages of doing so. Dynamic Planner ticks two boxes here: it’s intuitive to use; and the outputs are better than what the adviser has generated for a client previously.

The most important aspect of scaling a business, once you’ve reached a certain size, is being able to serve more clients, with fewer financial advisers. You don’t, as a business, want to keep simply growing your number of advisers, for lots of reasons. What you actually want is advisers who can serve more clients.

What Dynamic Planner does is make things easier, quicker and simpler. The production of a periodical review report for a client, for example. Previously, that perhaps would have relied upon work from a paraplanner, but now an administrator could do that. That tangibly can lower your unit cost of providing advice. It opens up the ability for you, as a business, to have a differentiated operating model.

Q: How has Dynamic Planner contributed to the financial planning industry, as a whole?

Dynamic Planner has led the way on communication with clients, in a way which is engaging and human. Bearing in mind, the financial services industry has spent the last 20 years going in the opposite direction, adding more and more compliance clauses, and more and more terms and conditions. Moving away from that is massively welcome, enabling real people to engage with financial advice, and also to trust financial advice.

Q: Would you recommend Dynamic Planner to a business similar to Solomon?

Yes, I would.