Over a 25-year career I have branched out into a number of areas, all of which have been underpinned by my desire to offer a bespoke, high-level consultative service to my clients. My experience includes financial advice, recruitment, running a highly successful arboriculture business and now wealth management.As a result, I have gained a large amount of knowledge in understanding people, their attitudes to money and how to target maximum returns on investment.Whilst managing wealth and tree surgery may, on the surface, appear to be completely different they do in fact share a number of similarities; namely managing expectations, offering a holistic and consultative service as well as keeping clients fully informed about the work I am doing for them.Today I provide high levels of sound, clear and personally specific advice. I also have an excellent working knowledge of all areas of wealth management.Away from work, rugby is a big part of my life with both my sons and I playing regularly. In addition, living near the coast we enjoy being on the water – sailing or surfing whenever possible.The value of your investment can go down as well as up. You could get back less than you invested.Arbrook Financial Planning is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James’s Place Wealth Management plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority). The ‘St. James’s Place Partnership’ is a marketing term used to describe St. James’s Place representatives.