Financial planning - THINKING AHEAD. WITH CLEAR FOCUS.
We've spent years thinking ahead, to help our clients live the future they want. We’ll use our expertise to help you do the same.
Financial Planning at Rathbones
It’s reassuring to have a clear plan for the future of your finances. Working one-to-one with our financial planners, you’ll have access to their advice, and their ability to plan ahead to help you achieve your goals.
They’ll aim to ensure you’re better placed to manage financial situations you may not have anticipated.
We will start by getting to know you and your current and long-term needs as well as any personal goals. Using this information, we will work with you to create clear and precise financial objectives to work towards, aiming to reduce complexity and help you focus on what matters to you. Because the best financial plans are always built around individual goals.
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU WITH YOUR FINANCIAL PLANNING ?
We have three ongoing advisory services and as part of our initial advice and planning we will confirm which, if any, is most suitable for you. Our ongoing advisory services are designed to reflect your individual financial planning needs and the type of advice required:
INITIAL ADVICE AND PLANNING
FOCUSED FINANCIAL PLANNING
HOLISTIC FINANCIAL PLANNING
FAMILY FINANCIAL PLANNING
ONE-OFF FINANCIAL ADVICE
Estate planning
Financial planning advice for lawyers
Your financial planning team
You will be looked after by a small team that knows you and your personal situation. Your financial planner will be your key contact. You will be supported by members of the team and they will often attend meetings. The team also has access to a range of in-house experts, researchers and analysts who they can call upon when needed or to at-tend meetings when required.
John Bawden
Financial planning director
John Bawden
Financial planning director
London
John graduated from the University of Southampton with a joint-honours degree in Economics and Politics and subsequently joined the financial planning industry in 2007. Since then, John has completed the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning, becoming a Chartered Financial Planner in April 2012. John is passionate about providing excellent wealth management and financial planning advice, delivered professionally with the highest level of customer care.
He particularly enjoys helping clients navigate periods of financial instability or change in their lifetime, such as the decision to adopt a different career path or retire, or through assisting clients with the financial consequences of a family bereavement. Away from the office, John enjoys staying healthy by playing tennis and is a fan of spectator sports. He is also actively involved in his local church.
John graduated from the University of Southampton with a joint-honours degree in Economics and Politics and subsequently joined the financial planning industry in 2007. Since then, John has completed the Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning, becoming a Chartered Financial Planner in April 2012. John is passionate about providing excellent wealth management and financial planning advice, delivered professionally with the highest level of customer care.
He particularly enjoys helping clients navigate periods of financial instability or change in their lifetime, such as the decision to adopt a different career path or retire, or through assisting clients with the financial consequences of a family bereavement. Away from the office, John enjoys staying healthy by playing tennis and is a fan of spectator sports. He is also actively involved in his local church.
Kindar Brown
Senior financial planner
Kindar Brown
Senior financial planner
Edinburgh
Kindar joined Rathbones in 2019 with over 20 years’ experience.
Kindar is one of a relatively small number of advisers in the UK to hold both the Chartered Financial Planner designation from the Personal Finance Society and the internationally recognised Certified Financial Planner Certification from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. She is also a qualified financial neutral through Consensus Collaboration Scotland which allows her to act in collaborative divorce cases.
Kindar is very experienced in providing clients with a holistic financial planning service including advice on matters such as tax efficient wealth structuring, retirement income planning, inheritance tax and estate planning. She has a particular interest in cashflow modelling and providing clients with the peace of mind to live their lives the way they want, unburdened by financial worries. Kindar is passionate about the benefits financial planning can offer clients and she truly enjoys being involved in a clients’ financial planning journey and the peace of mind it can bring.
Kindar joined Rathbones in 2019 with over 20 years’ experience.
Kindar is one of a relatively small number of advisers in the UK to hold both the Chartered Financial Planner designation from the Personal Finance Society and the internationally recognised Certified Financial Planner Certification from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. She is also a qualified financial neutral through Consensus Collaboration Scotland which allows her to act in collaborative divorce cases.
Kindar is very experienced in providing clients with a holistic financial planning service including advice on matters such as tax efficient wealth structuring, retirement income planning, inheritance tax and estate planning. She has a particular interest in cashflow modelling and providing clients with the peace of mind to live their lives the way they want, unburdened by financial worries. Kindar is passionate about the benefits financial planning can offer clients and she truly enjoys being involved in a clients’ financial planning journey and the peace of mind it can bring.
Kirsten Pettigrew
Senior financial planner
Kirsten Pettigrew
Senior financial planner
London
I joined the graduate program at Saunderson House (now Rathbones Financial Planning) in 2014, after graduating from the University of Manchester with a first class degree in International Management. I achieved Chartered status in 2018. I enjoy working closely with my clients, helping them identify their short and long term financial objectives, and providing the strategic financial planning that guides them in understanding how their wealth can translate into reaching financial independence.
I joined the graduate program at Saunderson House (now Rathbones Financial Planning) in 2014, after graduating from the University of Manchester with a first class degree in International Management. I achieved Chartered status in 2018. I enjoy working closely with my clients, helping them identify their short and long term financial objectives, and providing the strategic financial planning that guides them in understanding how their wealth can translate into reaching financial independence.
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