Day-to-day operating brief
What Wealth Manager work looks like in practice
A Wealth Manager develops financial plans and investment recommendations for clients within the firm's permissions and service model. Terms should define client segments, planning areas, discretionary or advisory boundaries, portfolios, product research, risk and capacity, tax-information limits, family and attorney authority, ongoing reviews, fees, introducers, client ownership, vulnerability, conflicts, complaints, targets and professional competence. A household may contain several clients with different objectives, ownership and confidentiality rights, so convenience does not create shared authority. Reviews should test whether the existing service and charges still provide value as circumstances change. Specialist tax, legal or estate-planning needs should be referred without presenting coordinated advice as personally authorised expertise. Authority under powers of attorney, trusts or business structures should be verified for the specific proposed action and kept current. Portfolio and planning recommendations need coordinated cash requirements, tax effects and product liquidity. Departure handover should protect client choice while preserving complete records and uninterrupted scheduled reviews. Client review notes should distinguish agreed instruction, recommendation still under consideration and administrative follow-up. Transfers between advisers require accurate service expectations and disclosure of unresolved suitability work.
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.