Building a plan around what matters most

A meaningful financial plan focuses on what you want to achieve and how your wealth can help get you there.

 

Financial planning at the centre. Everything else follows.

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Everything starts with the plan

Understand where you are today and create a clear financial plan for the future.

Where it fits in the plan

The centre of everything we do. Each of the other four areas is decided by it, not the other way round.

Plan for the life you want to live

A financial plan is about more than numbers. Through cashflow forecasting, we help you understand whether your wealth can support the lifestyle, retirement and legacy you envision.

Your wealth, projected into the future

The income you’ll need to support your lifestyle

The actions available to keep your plans on track

Example retirement scenarioIllustrative
£0£500k£1m606672788490Extended travelWedding giftDownsize
PensionsInvestmentsCashLife event

Illustrative figures based on a fictional case study. These examples are provided for demonstration purposes only and do not constitute financial or investment advice, nor a forecast or guarantee of future outcomes. Actual results will depend on individual circumstances, objectives and assumptions.

Planning is a cycle, not a one-off event

The first four stages create the framework. The fifth keeps everything on track.

STAGE 01Understand

Your goals, your current position and what you'd like to be different. Nothing is recommended at this stage.

STAGE 02Plan

We model your finances year by year, test scenarios and show what has to be true for the plan to work.

STAGE 03Implement

Only now do products enter the conversation — chosen because they serve the plan, from across the whole market.

STAGE 04Review

We meet regularly to check progress against the plan, not against last quarter's markets.

STAGE 05Adapt

Jobs change, families change, rules change. The plan changes with them — and the cycle begins again.

Not a product. A picture of your future, kept up to date.

A financial product

✕Answers one question — which fund, which policy

✕Chosen before anyone knows what it’s for

✕Tells you what you have

✕Sits in a drawer

A financial plan

✓Starts with what you want your life to look like

✓Pensions, investments, protection, mortgages and tax all follow from it

✓Shows whether you can afford the life you want, to the end of your life

✓Reviewed with you as life changes

Some of the key questions we regularly help clients navigate include:

How much can I afford to spend each year in retirement?

Can we afford to retire early?

How much can we give our children without compromising our plans?

 

Could I reduce my working hours and maintain my lifestyle?

 

The questions we work through

Where you stand today

Everything in one place: pensions, savings, investments, property, protection and debt.

What you want to happen

Goals with dates and numbers attached, so they can be tested rather than hoped for.

Whether it’s affordable

The plan modelled to the end of your life, with realistic assumptions we show you.

What if things change

Poor markets, illness, redundancy, a later retirement. We help you address these.

Whether you’re on track

One clear answer, revisited at every review, in place of a folder of statements.

What to do next

Specific recommendations, in priority order, with the reasoning written down.