A New Adviser

We are delighted to welcome Donna Robinson as an experienced new adviser at Chadwicks. Donna has eleven years experience in personal financial planning at Lloyds Banking Group together with her most recent experience at St James Place Partnership. Donna enjoys building long term relationships with clients and helping them to achieve their goals. She is fully qualified to Diploma status and will continue her studies to work towards Chartered status in future. A photo will follow Read more…

Beating the Bank

Many of our clients express their strong dissatisfaction with the interest rates currently available on bank and building society deposit accounts. Even taking a fixed one year or two year rate or a notice account fails to provide an inflation beating rate of return. For some time now I have been looking at “Peer to peer lending” websites such as Zopa, Ratesetter and Funding circle. These work on the principle of crowdfunding where lots of Read more…

Travelling to Europe

Having just returned home from two weeks motorhoming in France, I was surprised by how expensive everything is over there. The Autoroutes are great with considerably less traffic than our motorways but the cost at the toll booths soon adds up. Given high costs of travelling in Europe it is ever more important to get decent rates when changing Sterling into Euros. In the past I used to use the Post Office which offers much Read more…

Market Volatility

It is somewhat ironic that more positive economic signals from the United States have subsequently led to a decline in both equity and bond valuations. Market nervousness appears to have been triggerred following Ben Bernanke’s statements about starting to taper off the Quantitative Easing program towards the end of this year now there are signs of recovery. For an interesting view of the current situation you may like to take a look at Erik Ristuben’s Read more…

Chartered Success

We are pleased to announce that one of our Directors, Kate Pierce, has succesfully attained her Advanced Diploma from the Personal Finance Society and is now a Chartered Financial Adviser. Kate said; ” I am delighted to have achieved Chartered status as I think this is recognised by the public and I am looking forward to putting my increased knowledge and experience to good use when advising my clients”