Copy Examples

About me examples for financial advisors

An About me page is read by someone judging a person rather than a company, which is why it is first person even when the business is not.

Ten of them follow, written for financial advisors rather than filled in from a template. Your customer is someone in their forties who has just done the arithmetic, and what they are weighing up before they get in touch is being sold a product that pays the advisor rather than serves them.


Plain and short

I am [first name], a financial advisor in [your town]. I handle retirement planning, investment management and education savings. I start with a first meeting to look at where you actually are.

Use this as the default on a personal site or portfolio.

What I am known for

I am a financial advisor, and the part of the work I care most about is being paid the same whatever they recommend. I am fee-only and fiduciary, and my clients are mostly someone in their forties who has just done the arithmetic.

Use this when one specific standard is the reason people come to you.

How I got here

I came to this work from [where you came from]. [Number] years later the thing that still holds my attention is being paid the same whatever they recommend. I am fee-only and fiduciary.

Use this if the route in is genuinely interesting. Skip it if it is not.

What I am working on now

Right now I am mostly doing retirement planning, for someone in their forties who has just done the arithmetic. I am fee-only and fiduciary. If you want to talk about investment management, I start with a first meeting to look at where you actually are.

Use this on a site you update. It dates fast, which is the point.

One human detail

I am [first name] — a financial advisor in [your town], fee-only and fiduciary. [One true, small detail: a sport, a rescue dog, the town you grew up in]. Mostly I do retirement planning and investment management.

Use this where people hire the person. One detail, not a life story.

Names the reader

If you are someone in their forties who has just done the arithmetic, you are in the right place. I am [first name], a financial advisor, and what I do about being sold a product that pays the advisor rather than serves them is the reason most people stay on this page.

Use this when the right visitor should recognise themselves immediately.

Credentials, stated once

I am fee-only and fiduciary. Fee-only — paid by you and nobody else, with no commission on anything recommended. Beyond the paperwork: I work on retirement planning, investment management and education savings, and I am paid by you and nobody else.

Use this where the licence matters and you do not want to lead with it twice.

The specialist

I do one thing: retirement planning. I could do the rest of the list, and for years I did. I am fee-only and fiduciary. If that is what you need, I start with a first meeting to look at where you actually are.

Use this if you have deliberately narrowed. It reads as confidence.

Under forty words

Financial advisor in [your town], fee-only and fiduciary. Retirement planning and investment management. Book an introduction.

Use this where the form gives you a box and no more.

The quiet one

I am [first name]. I have been a financial advisor for [number] years, working for someone in their forties who has just done the arithmetic. I am fee-only and fiduciary. If it would help to talk, I start with a first meeting to look at where you actually are — there is no obligation in it.

Use this in a field where selling yourself hard would be a mark against you.

Writing for financial advisors: what actually matters

What should a financial advisor’s website say that a generic one does not?

Three things, in this order. That you are fee-only and fiduciary. That you understand the thing people are actually worried about, which for financial advisors is being sold a product that pays the advisor rather than serves them. And what happens next: a first meeting to look at where you actually are. Everything else on the page is decoration by comparison.

What does someone in their forties who has just done the arithmetic check first?

The credential, then the proof. For financial advisors it sounds like this. We are fee-only, in writing. We take no commissions and sell no proprietary products. You keep the plan whether or not you stay. Put at least one of those above the fold rather than on a separate page nobody opens.

What is the most common mistake on a financial advisor’s website?

Writing about the business instead of the customer. "We have been established since 1998" answers a question nobody asked. "We start with a first meeting to look at where you actually are" answers the one they are actually holding. If you only fix one thing, fix that.

How long should the copy be?

Shorter than you think, except where trust is being built. An About page of 120 well-chosen words beats 500 vague ones. The exception is anything explaining being sold a product that pays the advisor rather than serves them — there, specifics earn their length.