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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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You’ve received an HMRC annual allowance statement – what do you do now?
We all dread receiving the brown envelope with an HMRC logo, no more so than our higher earning NHS doctors…

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…

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…