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Buying your first property is exciting, and daunting for many people. Our advisers will happily guide you through this process from start to finish whilst securing you the most suitable and competitive mortgage available based on your circumstances and objectives.

If you’re self-employed you might feel a little anxious about getting a mortgage. Don’t worry, it’s perfectly possible to be your own boss and get a mortgage for a new home. We may just need a little more information in order to show the mortgage provider that you can keep up your monthly repayments. Our advisers will happily guide you through this process from start to finish whilst securing you the most suitable and competitive mortgage available based on your circumstances and objectives.

A home mover mortgage is no different to a standard mortgage. It's simply the process of getting a new mortgage when you move house so the mortgage is suitable for the house you're moving into. You may also have the option of porting your existing mortgage against your new home. Our advisers will happily guide you through this process from start to finish whilst securing you the most suitable and competitive mortgage available based on your circumstances and objectives.

Capital raising mortgages are usually ways of remortgaging your property to release funds for other purposes. The money could be for home improvements, a holiday, a new car or simply to consolidate existing debts. Many people use re mortgaging to take advantage of lower mortgage interest rates when consolidating all their loans into one manageable monthly amount. Our advisers will happily guide you through this process from start to finish whilst securing you the most suitable and competitive mortgage available based on your circumstances and objectives.

If you're planning to rent out your property, you will need a buy-to-let mortgage. Many lenders consider a buy to let mortgage as higher risk so you may need to meet certain conditions to be eligible for one. Our advisers will happily guide you through this process from start to finish whilst securing you the most suitable and competitive but to let mortgage available on the market based on your circumstances and objectives.

Whether you’re looking to pay off an existing mortgage, or to release some equity from your home to enjoy yourself or spend on your family, a later life mortgage could be suitable. Our qualified equity release advisers will happily guide you through this process from start to finish and help you find the right fit for you.

Life insurance is designed to reassure you that your dependants, such as your children or a partner, will be financially looked after in the event of your death. There are many reasons why you would consider a life insurance policy. Our advisers will listen to your needs and objectives in order to make a tailored and affordable recommendation to give you the peace of mind knowing you’re fully protected should the worst happen to you or a loved one.

Critical illness cover supports you and your family financially if you’re diagnosed with one of the conditions included in the policy. You will receive a tax-free one-off payment helps pay for your treatment, mortgage, rent or changes to your home, such as wheelchair access, should you need it. Our advisers will listen to your needs and objectives in order to make a tailored and affordable recommendation to give you the peace of mind knowing you’re fully protected should the unexpected happen to you.

This is a special type of life insurance policy. Generally, with life insurance, your loved ones will receive a lump sum tax free payment from your policy when you die. It’s then up to them to handle that money as they wish. With family income benefit, your loved ones will instead be paid a regular income for a set period of time.

Many people struggle to keep on top of their essential outgoings, such as mortgage and rent, if they lost an income due to illness or an accident. Income protection is a long-term insurance policy that makes sure you get a regular income until you retire or are able to return to work.

This policy would be taken out by a business to insure their most valuable employees. Think of it as a life and critical illness cover for those who are crucial to your company’s success. From Directors to your top sales people, or possibly someone with a specialist skill set. If any of these key people were to suddenly die or fall ill, a keyman insurance policy will protect your business against the financial repercussions. A lump sum is paid-out directly to the business and this can be used to cover the cost of any profit losses, replacement staff, or loan repayments.

A shareholder protection arrangement enables the surviving owners to purchase the deceased owner's share of the business from the deceased owner's estate. It also ensures that the deceased owner's dependants have a willing buyer and cash instead of a share of the business.

This is a savings account that you don’t pay any tax on. It does come with one restriction, which is the amount of money you can save or invest in within a single tax year, known as your annual ISA allowance. For the current tax year this allowance is £20,000. There are two basic types of ISA to choose from – Cash ISAs and Stocks & Shares ISAs.

A Lifetime ISA (LISA) can be opened by anyone aged between 18 and 39. You can save up to £4,000 a year in it. The money must be used towards your first home or retirement, and the government will add a cash bonus of up to a maximum of £1,000 a year (25%). You would lose your bonus if you decided not to use the money towards purchasing your first home or withdrawing your funds before reaching age 60.

By starting to save early, you can put your children on the path to a solid financial future. Junior ISAs let you save and invest on behalf of a child under 18. And with no tax on the earnings, the money you put away can grow even faster. The maximum amount you can pay in each year is £9,000.

This is a simple way to invest outside of tax wrappers like a Stocks & Shares ISA, which you might want to do if you've reached your annual ISA allowance.

Investment bonds mainly fall into two categories, onshore and offshore. The main difference is the way they are taxed. In simple terms, those onshore are subject to UK corporation tax, which is offset by your provider each year, but only on the growth of you funds, while offshore bonds are issued from outside the UK and the growth is rolled on until it is withdrawn. The tax due will depend on various circumstances.

If you’re not employed, and so don’t have access to a workplace pension, you can set up your own pension. These are called personal pensions and are a good way to save for retirement. You can also set one up outside of any workplace pensions you might have. As like other pension schemes, a personal pension offers a tax-efficient way to save for retirement. The money paid into a personal pension scheme is invested to build up a pot of money for when you retire. You receive tax relief on the contributions (25% bonus). This means that Income Tax you would normally pay to the government goes towards your pension instead. The money in the pot grows largely tax-free, and when you come to retire you can usually take up to 25% of your pension pot tax-free. You can also normally access your pension pot from age 55 currently, however, this is rising to 58 from 2028.

During your working life, you may have accrued various personal pensions. We help you understand exactly what you have and discuss your options for consolidation your pension into a suitable well diversified plan that fits perfectly with your circumstances and objectives.

These are designed to help you grow your retirement income. They’re long-term contracts from an insurance company where you exchange some or all of your pension savings in return for a regular monthly income for a period of time or the rest of your life. There are several types of annuity products available to choose from. Whether you’re looking for income options, legacy planning tools or spousal protection, we can tailor a plan to meet your specific goals.

This allows you to withdraw as much or as little of your pension savings as you wish, while leaving the remainder of your fund suitably invested in order to achieve potential longer term growth. This allows those nearing retirement to gain greater control over their pensions and draw what you need, when you need it. Based on your anticipated lifestyle in retirement, we will help you understand what will be sustainable over the long term and create a bespoke model tailored to you to help illustrate this for you.

This is a way of saving for your retirement that’s arranged by your employer. Employers must now automatically enrol their workers into a workplace pension. We work with a range of businesses, helping them to implement, service and review their workplace pension arrangements. This includes a complete pension scheme health check, whilst carrying out one to one meetings with every employee to make sure they understand the benefits on offer from their employer and their options both now and when they approach retirement.

Death in service is a form of benefit that's provided by an employer. If an employer offers death in service for their employees, should an employee pass away, their loved ones would receive a tax free lump sum pay out. There are various options available to employers regarding life insurance for their employees on a group basis. We can assist business’s understand the types of cover available and how to structure these schemes correctly for their employees and ultimately their chosen beneficiaries.

There are a number of benefits that a company may introduce to compliment their workplace pension and life insurance on a group level such as income protection and private medical insurance. We help companies understand what they could offer to their employees, why it may attract the right people, how much it would cost and hold their hand throughout the entire process from implementation to regular reviews of their group benefits package.

We follow a four-step journey to get to know you. Following our initial consultation, we’ll create a tailor-made plan and make changes that will enable you to achieve your hopes and dreams. For more details on our tired and tested process, take a look at our approach further down the page.

It is not just for retirees, although people do tend to think about it more as they get older. Unfortunately, we cannot successfully predict how long we will live, and illness and accidents happen to people of all ages. Estate planning is not just for the wealthy either, although people who have accumulated wealth may think more about how to preserve it. Good estate planning is often more impactful for families with modest assets because the loss of time and funds as a result of poor estate planning is more detrimental. We help people and families understand their estate value and establish a plan that will mitigate unnecessary taxation and time upon the passing of a loved one.

There are many reasons why people look to establish a trust, from maintaining control of their money whilst protecting it, to saving on unnecessary tax and avoiding delays through probate. After discussing and understanding your current circumstances and objectives, we can advise on the most suitable type of trust to suit your needs.