Financial Planning Consultant DipPFS in Harpenden
My role as your financial planner is to work closely with you to create a robust financial plan to achieve your goals and ambitions. I'm there to answer your important financial questions and to advise on the most tax efficient options and solutions to achieve your goal. My mission is to remove the uncertainty and worry around financial security and to ensure you and your family are fully protected from life's uncertainties.
In the UK, there are around 3.3 million pension pots that are considered as ‘lost’, containing an average of around £9,500 per pot*. Nobody wants to be missing out on money they have built up in a pension, but there’s good news - this kind of financial hit is completely avoidable.
This one might seem obvious, but it’s easy to lose track of your pension pots, where they are, and what they’re doing. If you make a note of your pension providers, and check your pot(s) regularly, you’re far less likely to lose one of them over time.
Your investment allocation is where and how you’re investing your pension. Often, people will just use their pension provider’s default setting. But this might not actually be right for your retirement goals and risk profile. So, it’s a good idea to revisit this every few years.
If you’ve had a windfall recently, like a pay rise, bonus, or inheritance, putting a portion of it into your pension is a good idea. Not only is it tax-efficient, but you’ll be glad when your retirement comes around.
As an adviser, my role is to help you get all of this done simply, with all the facts and information you need. That might be helping you review your risk profile, consolidating old pension pots, or making a plan to help you retire early. Investing can help your money grow over time, but the value of investments can go down as well as up.
If that sounds good to you, please get in touch.
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Commercial mortgages/remortgages, workplace pension and employee benefits. Commercial mortgages are by referral only.
Establishing and reviewing trusts, complete personal risk management planning, short- and long-term savings and investments.
Permanent health insurance to provide a regular income should you be unable to work due to illness or injury.
Wealth management advice to make your money work as hard as it can for you, including making the most of any tax breaks available.
Expert advice to help provide comfort in your retirement.
Whole of life and term assurance protection, private medical arrangements, critical illness insurance.
Harpenden
AL3
United Kingdom
Stuart offers expert financial advice to suit your needs, covering Harpenden and surrounding areas.
I believe that proper financial planning starts with listening to your goals and ambitions, understanding your challenges and fears and working alongside you to create a financial plan that is robust, clear and measurable but also one that can evolve with you. We all pursue 'financial freedom' but most importantly it is financial peace of mind which is most important to most of us.
After 20 years’ experience in financial markets - trading and managing investments - my knowledge and experience in analytical decision making makes a difference to clients by helping them achieve their financial goals by using modern planning techniques and up to date technology to deliver accurate financial forecasts. I work with you to connect the different aspects of your financial life, business, family and personal ambitions. By joining the dots and coordinating the tax, legal and wealth planning enables us to identify and quantify the probability of achieving the goals that are most important to you and the timeframe to achieve these. Making sure you and your family are protected from any unexpected surprises is a key part of any plan and gives peace of mind. Plans should have flexibility as we all know that life can be unpredictable! All great relationships start with a conversation! Contact me to find out how I can help you realise your financial ambitions
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In advising you, I follow a simple and trusted 3 step process:
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