A specialized enhanced level of family wealth advisor who is able to act as an integrator and team leader for service delivery for an UHNW client family.
An integrated wealth advisor is a family wealth advisor who has greater knowledge and skills to handle the complexity of integrating family office services and the work of other advisors. The integrated wealth advisor – also termed an expert generalist – goes beyond specific technical disciplines in UHNW wealth management to put the client family’s goals and objectives first, with true client-centered services. The advisor ensures that all specific disciplines are responding to and integrated with those goals and that the family’s best interests are being consistently met. The integrated wealth advisor tries to anticipate how one decision might affect another and that the implications of one activity are understood and incorporated in others.
Integrated wealth advisors are often found in firms who handle higher levels of integration and who seek to function as an integrated hub in service delivery.
See Also: Expert generalist
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