The Gamma Factor and the Value of Financial Advice
This
study, based on a new Canadian survey and adjusting for the causality issue,
reconfirms the positive value of having financial advice. As in our earlier
paper, the discipline imposed by a financial advisor on households’ financial
behaviour and increased savings of advised households are key to improving
asset values of households relative to comparable households without an
advisor. Benefitting from a subset of participants in both surveys, dropping an
advisor between 2010 and 2014 was costly: those households lost a significant
percentage of their asset values while the households who kept their advisor
have gained in asset values.
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