Retirement Planning | Thames Financial Planning

The winners and losers of the Bank of England’s interest rate announcement

by Mark Bugden | Aug 8, 2013 | Financial Planning, General News, Retirement Planning

Saw this and it does help to explain how it may effect different people, saver, pensions and mortgages. Hope it helps! Mark Author: Tahmina Mannan, Joanna Faith – IFAonline | 07 Aug 2013 The Bank of England (BoE) has announced it will not raise the...

Changes to the State Retirement Age

by Mark Bugden | Aug 2, 2013 | Financial Planning, General News, Pensions, Retirement Planning

Changes to the State Retirement Age With the Government’s seemingly endless tinkering with the State Retirement Age it is easy to lose track of when you can expect to receive your State Pension. We have moved a long way from the days when men retired at 65 and women...

The New flat Rate State Pension

by Mark Bugden | Jan 24, 2013 | Pensions, Retirement Planning

Found this from Legal & General and it explains the new state pension scheme, I hope it helps and if you have any questions just ask. Mark Long awaited details of the new state pensions system designed to simplify the current complicated system have been unveiled....

Welcome to our website

Welcome to what was the Thames Financial Planning website. We have now moved our practice into True Potential Wealth Management in order to enhance our client experience and offering.

We are a firm of independent financial advisers (IFA's) and financial planners. Based in Lyne, Surrey, we focus on private and business clients in the local area. This includes Virginia Water, Ascot, Staines, Weybridge, Sunningdale, Sunninghill, Chertsey and Woking.

We have many clients living and working in London and we can arrange meetings in London. Of course we do not limit our service by area and in fact have client around the UK and overseas.

Mark Bugden and True Potential Wealth Management have a wealth of experience in the firm to help and assist you.

We hope that you have the time to browse our website and look forward to hearing from you.

Mark Bugden

We offer a friendly and professional approach to all our clients. What we do is to make sense of it. We organise our clients’ finances so they know how much money they have, where it is, how hard it’s working and what it’s doing for them.

Our independent status means that any advice we give you will be unbiased towards any company or product and will be clearly detailed to you in writing in clear and understandable terms.

We hope find the information you require, if not please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Can we help?

Whether you are looking for advice on a specific area such as savings and investments, retirement planning, SIPP's, life insurance, inheritance tax planning or need a general review of your finances, we have a wealth of experience in the firm to help and assist you.

Our independent status means that any advice we give you will be unbiased towards any company or product and will be clearly detailed to you in writing in clear and understandable terms.

If you require a more detailed review of your finances we are also able to offer a bespoke cashflow modeling service. This will not only show you how you currently stand but also the likely affect of your actions on your future finances. Clients find this invaluable when considering when retirement will be possible, whether they can afford to gift funds, will the family be covered on death or serious illness, etc.