Meet the team...
Your first informal consultation with Financial Partners is completely free of charge with absolutely no obligation. Please get in touch with Andrew Back in the first instance. After reviewing your circumstances he will either work with you himself or engage another member of the Advice team, depending on areas of specialism.
Andrew Back
Managing Director and Independent Financial Planner
Andrew has been in wealth management since 1991 with key roles in major Financial Services businesses such as AXA, Old Mutual (now Quilter) and UBS.
A career supporting financial advisers and wealth managers has included being a Director within UBS’s private wealth team and more recently Chief Commercial Officer for a Global investment custodian, supporting private client wealth managers and multi-family offices.
After 30 years’ experience of supporting financial advisers and wealth managers, along with various financial planning qualifications and the Investment Management Certificate (IMC), Andrew’s role is both as a practising Adviser as well as running the company day to day.
Andrew is married to Claire and they have two children.
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Ian Cooke
Director
With over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector, Ian has worn multiple hats, ranging from financial planning and practice management to managing a national network of IFAs.
A Fellow of the Personal Finance Society and a Chartered Financial Planner, Ian has a deep-rooted interest in holistic financial planning. Beyond his daily work, Ian is a public speaker, and he writes and delivers training material tailored for the financial planning and wealth management sectors.
In recent years, Ian has delved into financial technology (fintech), managing major change programmes for high-end and discretionary wealth management firms. He has been pivotal in designing web-based, single-platform, multi-channel solutions for an array of clients including networks, compliance firms, IFA firms, and wealth managers.
Ian is married to Sara, and has two children.
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Independent Financial Adviser
Julian became a Financial Adviser in 1989. Prior to this he had been involved primarily in both commercial and residential property in London and has always maintained an interest in property matters. Before joining Hedley in 2011 he was an adviser with Openwork Limited in London.
He is qualified to full diploma status in Financial Planning and holds the CII Certificate in Mortgage Planning.
Julian spends a considerable amount of his time in or around London where many of his clients, both personal and corporate, are based.
Julian keeps himself extremely busy with very active involvement with his four adult children.
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Claire Back
Claire has had a successful career in IT recruitment including launching & managing the Berkshire Regional office of Hays IT, a division of one of the world's largest recruitment companies.
More recently she has held other senior operational roles and has moved into the wealth management sector
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