Vritti September 2017 | Page 10

10 vritti Technically Speaking September 2017 D E M O C R A T I Z I N G W ALTH MANAGEMENT Why financial advisory is only for the privileged? If we look at the Global wealth pyramid, ~86% of the wealth is owned by the High net worth and above segment which is just 8.2% of eligible adult population. The people in these segments are the ones who can afford to get personalized advisory and wealth management services. The remaining 97.8% of the population consisting of the mass affluent and mass market segment remain underserved due to number of reasons such as high threshold levels for investment, high service cost, low transparency etc.