Tilney Bestinvest hires David Cummins for push into Kent

Leading investment and financial planning group, Tilney Bestinvest, is pleased to announce the appointment of David Cummins as Director, Financial Planning as it progresses its strategy of expanding its regional financial planning presence. Cummins will be based in Tilney Bestinvest’s new office in Maidstone and will report to Richard Dawes, Managing Director of Financial Planning at the firm.

David Cummins has 25 years of experience advising private individuals and their families on their financial plans and is a Chartered Financial Planner, which is recognised as the ‘gold standard’ for financial advice in the UK. He is an Associate of both the Institute of Financial Planning and the Personal Finance Society (PFS) and is the PFS’s Education Officer for Kent.

David joins Tilney Bestinvest from European Wealth where he was Senior Financial Adviser in their East Malling office. He has previously worked at St. James’s Place, Halifax Bank of Scotland and Equitable Life.

Richard Dawes, Managing Director, Financial Planning, commented: “We are delighted that David has joined the team. He is a hugely experienced financial planner who has advised individuals and their families in Kent and the South East for many years and will spearhead the growth of our financial planning business in Kent. The radical shake-up of pensions being introduced next year means there has never been a more important time for people to seek high quality, professional advice on their financial plans and that underpins our ambitious plans to double the size of our financial planning team over the coming months.”

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About Tilney Bestinvest

Tilney Bestinvest is a leading investment and financial planning firm that builds on a heritage of more than 150 years. We look after more than £9 billion of assets on our clients’ behalf and pride ourselves on offering the very highest levels of professional client service with transparent, competitive pricing across our entire range of solutions.

We offer a range of services for clients whether they would like to have their investments managed by us, require the support of a highly qualified adviser, prefer to make their own investment decisions or want to take more than one approach. We also have a nationwide team of expert financial planners to help clients with all aspects of financial planning, including retirement planning.

We have won numerous awards including UK Wealth Manager of the Year, Low-cost SIPP Provider of the Year and Self-select ISA Provider of the Year 2013, as voted by readers of the Financial Times and Investors Chronicle. We are pleased that our greatest source of new business is personal referrals from existing clients.

Headquartered in Mayfair, London, Tilney Bestinvest employs almost 400 staff across our network of offices, giving us full UK coverage, and we combine our award-winning research and expertise to provide a personalised service to clients whatever their investment needs.

The Tilney Bestinvest Group of Companies comprises the firms Bestinvest (Brokers) Ltd (Reg. No. 2830297), Tilney Investment Management (Reg. No. 02010520), Bestinvest (Consultants) Ltd (Reg. No. 1550116) and HW Financial Services Ltd (Reg. No. 02030706) all of which are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered office: 6 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, W1J 5BQ.

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