[GRTV] Financial advice transformed my life: Shanks
Chief executive officer of Financial Advice New Zealand, Katrina Shanks told good returns that the process of getting her own financial adviser has “totally transformed my life”.
Before she began receiving financial advice, Shanks said that she thought that she was pretty competent, “I thought I didn't need it, but actually now that I've had advice, I realized just how invaluable it is and how it gives you a different lens of looking at things.”
Shanks went on to discuss the resilience of the financial advice sector under the dual pressures of covid and massive administration upheaval. “We had FSLA come through, which has set the environment which FAPs are going to operate in the future. And then on the top of that, you've got the disclosure requirements, you've got full licensing coming in. And then on top of that, we've had COFI come in for conduct and culture for product providers and companies and their reaction to what that looks like as well has changed the environment slightly. So, just as you think that the environment has settled, there's another change that's come into the environment.”
It is clear, Shanks says, that the financial advice sector has gone under much more change than other industries, “I can't think of any other sector which has gone through change so quickly over such a short period of time.”
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