Your Financial Coach
Everybody needs access to good quality financial advice.
Darren’s experience advising elite athletes inspired him to write “Your Financial Coach,” a book which delivers practical financial and life advice to professional sports people – although much of the content applies equally to non-sports people.
The core of the book deals with Financial Management – how to go about organising and managing your monetary affairs.
It also considers other common challenges that many people face during their lives – and offers the counsel of professionals, past and present.
Darren’s hope is that by highlighting these issues and providing some practical tips and advice, he can help minimise anxiety, cut down on prevarication and spur people into taking positive action.
Your Financial Coach was nominated for the British Sports Book awards 2014 and 2015.
What Darren provides is a focus on a balanced portfolio, tuned to a level of risk tailored to your circumstances and objectives with investment funds that are not like vampires that drain away the value of your portfolio with high fees.
Our family has dealt with Darren for over 20 years, he has become a valued and trusted advisor. He offers strong and sound advice and explains everything in layman’s terms. Family businesses and investments are always delicate and can become quite emotive and controversial. Darren navigates his way through these discussions and listens to everyone’s concerns before offering sound solutions. He always follows through everything and does what he promises.
I was extremely worried about choosing an investment adviser, but having learnt more about QED’s service and having spoken to several existing clients, I felt confident QED were the right people for me.
When my wife and I needed proper professional advice we looked at other IFAs and realised that…Darren was so far ahead of them in terms of research, seriousness, management backup and probity.
Darren listens really well and takes the time to understand personal goals. His assessment of his clients attitude to risk is the best I have come across from an advisor and very thorough.
We chose Darren specifically because…we preferred his approach of minimising the internal “tax” of high management costs. He has paid us ample attention…His explanations are clear, at the right level of detail, and he has inspired confidence. He has managed to avoid swamping us with unnecessary paperwork and we have a straightforward view of our investments which we can call up on the web whenever we want, all in one place. I have no hesitation in recommending Darren.