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Free financial planning guides

In 2019 only 8% of the UK adult population received financial advice (Financial Conduct Authority). We think the industry can do more to make financial advice more accessible so people understand how to manage their money. Our financial planning guides give you a more in-depth look into some key topics.

The ultimate guide to financial planning

This guide deals with both the art of offering financial advice, how the industry works and the Unividual ethos, but also the psychology of money and how it affects our wellbeing. Financial advice isn’t just about dealing with money, but about dealing with people. We’ll look at some of the cognitive biases that affect our decision making. Along with examining some of the ways we can overcome these. 

A guide to financial planning

Business Exit Planning Guide: How to exit your business successfully and retire

For entrepreneurs or business owners, getting retirement planning wrong can spell disaster. Releasing capital from your business needs to be planned carefully. The problem is, no matter how well you plan, your business fortunes can change from one day to the next without warning, like Covid!. Don’t make selling your business your only retirement plan: Plan A. Exit planning is an art. Making your business as attractive as possible is no overnight task. Other personal assets, such as your home & investments, need to be factored in. In our Ultimate Guide to Business Exit Planning we show you how to make sure that personal and business retirement planning are working together to create a strong plan for retirement. 

Business Exit Planning Guide

Retirement Planning Guide: Less stress and a lot more action

Retirement is the start of a new chapter, something you should be looking forward to. Yet it always becomes quite a worry the closer you near retirement age. From the first day of working life to the day you retire, we look at what steps you need to take to ensure your retirement is everything you dreamed of. This includes making things tax efficient, especially when you pass your wealth on.

Retirement Planning Guide

Investment Planning Guide: Save, Invest, Reach Those Goals

Unsure if investing is for you? Keep hearing about Bitcoin and Ethical Investing? Finance can feel a minefield of information. Our ultimate guide to investing offers advice and tips from the experts for anyone looking to grow their wealth and start saving for the long-term. There is even a bit in there for more experienced “DIY” investors too.

Investment Planning Guide

Inheritance Planning: calm and tax-efficient planning

When it comes to planning for inheritance there are so many questions and so few motivations to get started. No one likes sitting down and talking about life after a family death, our brains are wired to protect us from those types of conversations. Yet if we don’t take action in can be one of our biggest regrets and cause one of the greatest stress in the lives of all of our loved ones. In this guide we take a look at what your “estate” is and how inheritance works, ways in which you can pass down your wealth, inheritance tax allowances and thresholds, the importance of understanding property and how all this effects long-term care. Get to grips with these topics and reduce the emotional strain for everyone. 

A Guide To Inheritance Planning

A guide to planning for the 2021/22 tax year

Planning for the tax implications of a new financial year can ensure your savings, investments and pensions perform tax efficiently.  Read about the key dates, rules and rates, tax allowances and how the tax year effects savers, investors, tax payers, small businesses, self-employed and employed people.

Tax Planning Guide

A guide to the Spring Budget 2021

Another year, another UK budget. Our guide gives you a clear idea of what it means for your financial planning. Covering what a budget even is, the key points from the 2021 budget, how it might directly affect you as a person or as a business.

2021 Budget Guide

A guide to managing money in your 20s/30s

We get to our 20s and 30s and everything just seems to get more complex and serious. You start worrying about how to improve your finances. You get advice from friends, parents and over consume information.  In the end you just don’t know where to start or who to trust. Unividual brings you views from our professionals and some easy ideas just to get you started, from budgeting through to saving, debt, buying your first home and investing. Then if you want to take things to another level you know where we are.

Managing money in your 20s and 30s

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