What is The Psychology of Financial Planning?

On March 30th, the CFP Board announced changes to their Principal Knowledge Topics for educational programs for those seeking or with the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation. This change includes a new section representing 7% of the educational component, entitled “The Psychology of Financial Planning.” For those of us at DataPoints who have been writing about financial psychology and the psychology of building wealth for quite some time, we are delighted to hear that …
When you’re working to help clients achieve financial success, having insights related to their financial psychology is crucial. We’re delighted to share that you can now have behavioral insights from DataPoints integrated into Wealthbox CRM. The integration works by: Automatically importing contacts into DataPoints Sending leads and contacts to Wealthbox CRM Sending test scores from any test from the DataPoints library into a Wealthbox CRM note Access client money-related attitudes, personality, and psychological risk tolerance …
Clients seek your financial planning expertise. And, you create comprehensive financial plans for your clients. The plans require clients to make spending, saving, and investing decisions that will help them achieve financial goals and live the life they seek. Will all clients follow the plans you create? Will they all follow them in the same way? The real work of achieving financial success comes once your clients leave your office. Client money mindset impacts …
Financial psychology is the study and application of psychological theories, methods, and practices to the areas of personal finance and financial services. The field takes into account two areas. First, financial psychology includes how each of us relates to and makes decisions about money. In other words, financial psychology includes what psychologists refer to as “individual differences” in money-related behaviors and decisions. Second, financial psychology covers the client-advisor relationship, that is, the application of psychology …
Few would argue that the relationship between our financial psychology and the decisions we make about money-related matters is weak. Many of us know what the “right” answer is when it comes to our saving, spending, and investing behaviors, but the translation from what we know we should do and what we do can be quite different. In some cases, our unique behaviors or patterns of behaviors are causing stress and strains in other …

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