As your Financial Adviser, I aim to provide 'Advice for Life'; I consider it my job to help you take control of your finances and to do so by putting you in a position where you can make informed choices about your financial planning.
I have been a Financial Adviser for 24 years, with the last 13 years as a specialist in the medical and dental sector (with a working knowledge of all NHS employee benefits including the NHS Pension Scheme). Working with business owners within these areas has also led to me specialising in providing advice to SME business owners whether they are healthcare professionals or not.
There are many similarities between SME Business Owners from a Medical or Dental background and SME Business Owners from a non-Medical or Dental background. In each case the business owner will have individual needs independent of their business as well as needs specific to their business.
As a starting point, I believe that it is important to help my clients identify and establish their core financial goals in either or both these areas and then to help them prioritise the order in which I help them to achieve these financial goals.
Examples of Individual Goals would include but are not limited to:
I do this in four simple steps:
Examples of Business Goals would include but are not limited to:
I do this in six simple steps:
1) Understand what your goals are during an initial consultation
2) Invite you to complete our SME Diagnostic Tool*
3) Present the Benchmark Matrix Report which:
4) Develop a comprehensive financial plan
5) Manage and deliver your plan
6) Review and update
My clients include:
My advice is never limited to any one area of wealth management but looks at the bigger holistic picture and I am able to use the comprehensive range of solutions offered by St. James's Place, coupled with their distinctive approach to investment management, to complement my experience and provide my clients with an outstanding service.
The value of an investment with St. James's Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested. Equities do not provide the security of capital which is characteristic of a deposit with a bank or building society.
Please note that advice with regard to exit strategy planning may involve the referral to a service that is separate and distinct to those offered by St. James's Place.
*This may involve the referral to a service that is separate and distinct from those offered by St. James's Place
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The Partner Practice is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James's Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website www.sjp.co.uk/products. The ‘St. James's Place Partnership’ and the titles ‘Partner’ and ‘Partner Practice’ are marketing terms used to describe St. James's Place representatives.