Episode 24, Part 2 – Jonathan Tweedie: Financial Advice in a Changing World
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Hello and welcome to the Growth Workshop Podcast with your hosts, me, Matt Best, and Jonny Adams. In this podcast, we'll be sharing insights from our combined 30 plus years experience and hearing from other industry leaders to get their thoughts and perspectives on what growth looks like in modern business. We'll cover all aspects of leadership, sales, account development, and customer success, alongside other critical elements required to build an effective growth engine for your business. This podcast is aimed at leaders from exec all the way down to line managers. Welcome back to the Growth Workshop podcast with myself, Matt Best, and Jonny Adams, and continued discussion with Jonathan Tweedy from RBC Brew and Dolphin.
Jonny, I had a cool conversation with one of those US firms just around what the government in the US are mandating in terms of its benefits and things that need to be in place. You talk about corporates and the regulator. So corporate... What are some of the things, and I know we're going to potentially open some cans of worms, but for me, there's a couple of things here. There's a bit of a kind of mandating what the future needs to look like. There's going to need to be some policy that helps drive that forward, but there also needs to be that sort of willingness. Which of those things do you think is going to happen fastest? Do you think it'll be corporate saying, you know what, this is a sufficient benefit for our employee base that actually we're going to provide a service that helps financial health of our employees?
Or do you think it's more likely that the government will do something first?
I suspect they'll both happen at the same time. Yeah. But my view, corporates are already starting to look at this and starting to understand that they need to make sure, from a fairly selfish point of view, that they get better productivity if they can deliver a better working environment and less stress for the people. What stresses us out most of the time? It's working out how we're going to pay the mortgage at the end of the month, how we're going to pay for kids' school fees, whatever it might be that's stressing you. As an employer, you want to remove that from your employees and therefore providing them with access to good and trusted advice is going to be crucial. And when you look at every employer today who's mandated to provide pensions for their employees, making sure their employees understand the value of that pension, again, is hugely important to them because it enables them to make sure that their employees are motivated to protect themselves and to protect their families.
So I think employers will drive this quite quickly and will demand it. I think that the reason I think government will do it at the same time is we're in a tight space financially. The government recognizes that they need to find ways of removing some of the costs from the state. Right. And by encouraging and potentially even mandating employers to give their employees access not just to services but to the advice, may help them reduce some of that long-term burden. But I think in order to get it right, the biggest challenge to the industry to do this today is the lack of alignment between the ombudsman and the regulator. And I think this is a big difference in the US. They have a caveat environment.
There is much less financial protection. I'm not for one moment advocating going there. I don't think it's good for the majority of people. It's very good for the minority. But what I do think they get right is they support, they are much more likely to recognize that bit that no one knows what tomorrow looks like. So when you are giving advice, you are not giving guarantees of things happening. You cannot give guarantees of things happening. you need to provide the education so people understand. People understand risk is what you need to educate them for. You need somebody to recognize that if they are saving, they can afford risk in their early years because statistically, they will be absolutely fine over the length of this, but you need to draw down risk as you get close to the point where you actually need access to the capital.
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