The question gets asked often: is financial advice worthwhile? Implicit in this question is: how much money should I have to make financial advice worthwhile? The answer is that it does not depend on how much money you have but what your needs are and whether the advice will provide enough value to justify paying for it. However, there are many common misconceptions about financial advice and what level of service you are getting. The financial services industry is tailored towards people with money – so the more money you have, the more and better quality advice you would get. If you have no money, you have few options which is where the expression comes from; “no money, no advice”. Why is this? Advice is not charged for on its own: its value is combined with products that get sold.