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How do you want to plan for your future?
Use our Lonsdale Lifetime Financial Planner to monitor your cashflow and maximise your retirement income and protect your family’s financial security.
We are committed to working in partnership with you to achieve your financial goals. We will be open and honest with you at all times, and act with integrity in everything we do. We believe you have the right to expect value for money from us, which is exactly what we seek to deliver.”
Simon Hawker, Managing Director, Lonsdale
Employee Benefits
Protecting your employees for life
Our approach
Lonsdale Benefit Consultants provides a high quality professional financial planning service. We offer you a clearly defined service proposition and a transparent fee structure.
We are committed to working in partnership with you to achieve your financial goals. We will be open and honest with you at all times, and act with integrity in everything we do. We believe you have the right to expect value for money from us, which is exactly what we seek to deliver.”
Simon Hawker, Managing Director, Lonsdale
My current job is very rewarding as I am affecting people’s lives. It's a chance for me to help people, and I feel honoured to be in this position. The financial advice I give clients helps them organise their life and business to achieve their financial goals, and I consider this one of the most important aspects of my work as an IFA. Besides providing employee benefits for working people, I feel very strongly that it is important that they receive appropriate retirement planning advice and fully understand all their financial options.
Steve Cook, Financial Adviser & Director, Lonsdale, St Albans
Steve Cook
Independent Financial Adviser & Director, St Albans, Hertfordshire
Financial Planning Specialisms: Investment Planning, Estate Planning, Protection, Pension Advice & Retirement Planning, Auto Enrolment, Tax, Cash Flow Modelling
Steve started working in Financial Services at Pearl Assurance in 1993, before moving to College Green Associates, part of Scottish Equitable, mainly advising publicans on the Licensed Victuallers Pension Scheme plus other aspects of financial planning. Steve was working as an Independent Financial adviser for G H Macdonald Pensions and Financial Services Ltd in 2009, when their clients were purchased by Lonsdale Services Limited, and Steve and his administration team moved to Lonsdale to provide financial planning advice.
Although working largely in the corporate market advising clients on employee benefits such as Group Personal Pension Schemes, Group Life, Income Protection and Private Medical Schemes Steve also advises on all other aspects of financial advice, ranging from Life Assurance to Investments for private clients.
In August 2015 Steve passed the Chartered Institute of Insurance (R08) Pensions Update examination, ensuring Steve is qualified to give retirement advice on new pension legislation.
In 2018 Lonsdale Services won the Retirement Planner Award (RPA) for Best Individual Pension Advice firm in the South East and Anglia, and we were ‘highly commended’ in the Estate Planner Adviser category. In 2017 we won the RPA Outstanding Customer Care award.
In March 2018 Steve Cook competed in the Devizes to Westminster canoe challenge and raised £2,596 for the Alzheimer’s Society and the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust. In June 2018 Steve Cook joined other Lonsdale colleagues on the Trek26 Alzheimer’s Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. The team raised over £1,500 for Alzheimer’s Society.
Outside of work Steve is interested in sport. He enjoys playing golf and watching football, and is a lifelong Leicester City fan. He is married to Claire and they have two grown up children.
Steve Cook – To learn more about Steve’s investment career, please read his LinkedIn profile.
Independent Financial Advisers in St Albans – Read more about our team.
I could not fault Financial Adviser Steve Cook at all. His service was excellent and he did not baffle me. I would recommend your company to anyone in the future.”
Mr D, Yorkshire
News from our Financial Advisers
19-04-2018
Steve Cook – Update on the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Challenge
Steve Cook took part in the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Challenge. This is his story...
29-03-2018
Lonsdale's Steve Cook enters Devizes to Westminster Canoe Challenge this Easter
Steve Cook is fundraising for The Alzheimer's Society and Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust. To donate go to our corporate fundraising page
The St Albans Financial Planning Team
Simon Hawker
Financial Adviser
St Albans
Richard Porter
Financial Adviser
St Albans
Steve Cook
Financial Adviser
St Albans
Mark Bowen
Financial Adviser
St Albans
Simon Armstrong
Financial Adviser
St Albans
Kate Harris
Investment Research
St Albans
Lee-Anne Peters
Quality Assurance
St Albans
Sally Danks
Administrator
St Albans
Veronica Eastwood
Administrator
St Albans
Dawn Overton
Administrator
St Albans
Juliet Cross
Administrator
St Albans
Mandy Morgan
Bookkeeper
St Albans
Read more about our team of Independent Financial Advisers in St Albans.
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