Box Financial Planning

Independent Financial Adviser 60B Wood Lane, Sonning Common, Berkshire, Reading, RG4 9SL

Response rating

7.0/10

13th August 2018

Being a newer firm, we hope to bring some fresh and 'straight out of the box' ideas to clients!

We can advise you on

Business
- Commercial mortgages
- Corporate pension
- Employee benefits
- Group critical illness
- Group income protection
- Group ISA
- Group life insurance
- Group pensions
- Group private medical insurance
- Group protection
- Group risk
Financial planning
- Wealth management
Investments
- Ethical investments
- Investing for income
- Investment trusts
- ISAs
- OEICs
- Offshore investments
- Socially responsible investments
- Traded endowment policies
- Unit trusts
Mortgages
- Bad credit
- Buy to let
- Commercial for individuals
- Equity release
- First time buyers
- Flexible
- High loan to value
- Home reversion
- Remortgage
- Residential
- Right to buy
- Self build
- Self employed
Pensions & retirement
- Annuity purchase
- Auto enrolment
- Pension consolidation
- Pension drawdown
- Pensions & divorce
- Pensions & retirement planning
- Pensions review
- Sipps
- Stakeholder
Insurance & protection
- Accident & sickness
- Critical illness
- Healthcare
- Income protection insurance
- Life insurance
Savings
- Lump sum
- National savings
- Regular savings
- Savings for children
- School fees planning
Tax & trust planning
- Capital gains tax
- Estate planning
- Income tax
- Taxation planning
Long term care
- Long term care

Meet our advisers

Paul Howard DipPFS

Proprietor

Qualifications & Accreditations Hide qualifications

HR1 - Home Reversion Plans (CII)

This examination assesses a knowledge and understanding of the legislative and regulatory position of home reversion plans and their place in the advice process.

Dip PFS - Personal Finance Society Diploma (PFS)

To achieve DipPFS individuals must achieve 140 credits. At least 80 credits must be at Diploma or AFPC level.

MAQ - Mortgage Advice Qualification (CII)

This qualification assessed the knowledge and understanding of the UK regulation environment in the financial services industry together with types of mortgage products and repayment options and the giving of mortgage advice.

J04 - Pension Funding Options (CII)

At the end of this unit, candidates should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the: main tax and legal frameworks that govern the accumulation phase of building up retirement benefits under registered pension schemes; features of defined contribution and defined benefit pensions; choices faced by early leavers and use of transfer value analysis; State retirement benefits available, including the risks and suitability of contracting out of the State Second Pension.

ER1 - Equity Release (CII)

This examination assesses a knowledge and understanding of the different types of equity release products, risks to the consumer associated with equity release and application of suitable equity release solutions according to the circumstances of different customers.

J05 - Pension Income Options (CII)

At the end of this unit, candidates should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the: process of decumulating pension funds and the main issues for clients and advisers; main choices facing members of pensions schemes during decumulation; features, risks and tax treatment of the secured pension option; features, risks and tax treatment of the unsecured pension option; features, risks and tax treatment of phased retirement; features, risks and tax treatment of the alternatively secured pension option.

Where to find us

About us

Established in January 2014, Box Financial Planning is a small, personal and friendly firm based in Sonning Common, near Reading. However, as the proprietor has nearly 30 years of Financial Services experience and has experience of both of the normal day to day things like Pensions, Investments, Protection and Mortgages - but also the slightly different things, such as Lifetime Mortgages, Long Term Care and specialist investment products such as structured Capital At Risk (SCARP), Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS), Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) and Film Schemes.

Therefore whatever your needs - we are well placed to help you meet your aspirations and needs.

Our services

The ‘Retail Distribution Review' changed a lot of things and regrettable it seems to have been detrimental to many clients, with costs going up and on-going service being reduced or totally stopped. Those individuals may now feel they have nowhere to turn, to receive the appropriate level of ongoing service they need, at a price that is both fair and affordable. Box Financial Planning will hopefully fill that gap, on a friendly, ethical, cost effective and professional basis. Crucially, we feel that ‘best advice’ can only be provided by being independent – as not all clients are the same.

Compliance

The value of units can fall as well as rise, and you may not get back all of your original investment.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your Mortgage or Home Purchase Plan.

We can advise you on

Business
- Commercial mortgages
- Corporate pension
- Employee benefits
- Group critical illness
- Group income protection
- Group ISA
- Group life insurance
- Group pensions
- Group private medical insurance
- Group protection
- Group risk
Financial planning
- Wealth management
Investments
- Ethical investments
- Investing for income
- Investment trusts
- ISAs
- OEICs
- Offshore investments
- Socially responsible investments
- Traded endowment policies
- Unit trusts
Mortgages
- Bad credit
- Buy to let
- Commercial for individuals
- Equity release
- First time buyers
- Flexible
- High loan to value
- Home reversion
- Remortgage
- Residential
- Right to buy
- Self build
- Self employed
Pensions & retirement
- Annuity purchase
- Auto enrolment
- Pension consolidation
- Pension drawdown
- Pensions & divorce
- Pensions & retirement planning
- Pensions review
- Sipps
- Stakeholder
Insurance & protection
- Accident & sickness
- Critical illness
- Healthcare
- Income protection insurance
- Life insurance
Savings
- Lump sum
- National savings
- Regular savings
- Savings for children
- School fees planning
Tax & trust planning
- Capital gains tax
- Estate planning
- Income tax
- Taxation planning
Long term care
- Long term care

Advice methods

Telephone
Face to face

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Minimum mortgage value

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