Independent Financial Advice
Scottish Financial, or The Scottish Financial Independence Group, to use our full name, is a firm of independent financial advisers (IFAs) based in Scotland and serving clients throughout the United Kingdom and among the expatriate communities worldwide.
We have been providing top quality services for many years, initially mainly to the medical professions, doctors, dentists and vets, extending with the growth of the oil industry to oilfield personnel, as well as the other professions, teachers, engineers, and other members of the business community.
Our wide experience enables us to draw on a wealth of knowledge, which has been well appreciated by our many clients, a number of which have remained with us since the early days. We have embraced the changes in communications and grown from paper based transmission of information by letters and faxes, through to use of the very latest technology, with a great deal of our work now being made easier by the internet and email communication.
Our Services
At Scottish Financial, we offer the full range of independent financial advice services. These include a full review of existing financial planning arrangements, which we can take over servicing if required.
We will review all protection arrangements, including life assurance, critical illness and income protection, tax efficiency, including inheritance tax mitigation where appropriate, retirement and estate planning .
Business protection is another important area, particularly relating to partnership and director protection and succession planning.
We also arrange both personal mortgages and business finance, and the full range of general insurance for the home and business, including private and commercial motor insurance.
We also have a website dedicated to providing online price comparisons
including Term Assurance, Mortgage Protection, Family Income Benefit, and
Whole Life Assurance, for life and critical illness cover.
See coverplease.co.uk for
further details. Our investment website retirementisa.co.uk considers the suitability of Pensions and Individual Savings Accounts as investments for saving for retirement and providing income in retirement.
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Personal Protection It is vitally important that those of us with financial responsibilities and obligations, plan ahead to take care of the people relying on us for support, should we become ill, or not survive to see through our plans. This will necessitate consideration of life assurance, both long and short term, critical illness and income protection, and consideration of trusts. |
Retirement Planning Our government has for many years provided a basic level of income in retirement, which is vitally important to those who have been unable to make additional arrangements. As far as continuing a lifestyle is concerned, this is a completely different matter, which needs long term planning of investment, pensions, properties and other savings to ensure a comfortable retirement. |
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Savings For a number of years, long term interest rates have been lower than they were previously, and this must be considered in the light of the very much lower levels of inflation we have had. A good basis of bank and building society accounts, together with National Savings, will provide a secure income in the form of interest, although if the interest is used, in real terms the capital will be eroded by inflation. |
InvestmentsInvestments is a wide and varied term, usually referring to stock market related holdings and property. Both of these classes of investment have proved to be profitable in some time scales, but both have shown vulnerability when the stock market and the property market conditions have been unfavourable. Diversification can be vital in dealing with these risks. |
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Expatriates We are specialists in expatriate financial planning, particularly in relation to secure and tax efficient investment while working in foreign parts and the careful planning of the eventual place of residence, either on returning home from postings and retirement, which may be in the UK, but this is often Spain, or even the Far East. Our medical and oil related clients are well scattered, but only an email away! |
General Insurance We have been involved in personal and business insurances for many years and can provide the full range of covers, house buildings and contents, private car and commmercial vehicle, business premises insurance, public liability and employers liability, with various packages for different trades, as well as travel cover and private medical insurance where required. |
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