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Nigel Farrar
Financial Planning Consultant Area Covered: South CoastNigel has been in the financial services industry for over 30 years. Before joining Legal & Medical as an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA), he worked at Wesleyan Medical Sickness for 12 years providing specialist financial advice and wealth management services to those in the medical profession.
He holds the Diploma in Financial Planning (Dip PFS) and Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice (CeMAP®), and is studying to become a Chartered Financial Planner.
Nigel lives in Drayton, near Portsmouth, with his wife and twin girls. He is a keen cook, musician, and sportsman who enjoys 5-a-side football once a week, volleyball and skiing.
You’ll never hear Nigel say: Forget my 5-a-side football tonight, let’s watch Downton Abbey!
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Changes in NHS pension contributions: are you a winner or loser?
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has just published its response to a recent consultation on NHS member…
Scheme pays deadline extended plus NHS pension scheme updates
Legal & Medical, along with other top NHS Specialist IFA’s and Accountancy firms were recently invited to an audience with…
More annual allowance issues within the NHS pension scheme
As if life isn’t complicated enough for our NHS doctors and dentists at the moment. To add to your trials,…
NHS Death in Service: Emergency measures for staff returning to the frontline
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the NHS has launched one of its biggest recruitment programmes in history. Prompting many medics…
Clinical Excellence Awards changes, your pay and pension
The warnings that changes to Clinical Excellence Awards (CEAs) were afoot have come true. A new local Clinical Excellence Award…
GP locums: Will you get your death in service benefit?
Locums are becoming a vital part of increasingly pressurised general practices, yet the NHS benefits they’re entitled to are not…
Spring Budget 2017: Why was it so controversial?
Philip Hammond’s first and last Spring Budget certainly provoked some strong backlash and continues to hit the front pages. Why…
Financial advisers: Stop working harder and harder for less
You’ve put the hours in, you’ve built a strong relationship with your clients who now totally trust and rely on…
Is this a crystal ball for your NHS Pension?
Whilst the Budget 2016 didn’t rock the pensions’ world with any new announcements, there are already enough significant changes coming…