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Financial Planning for Life After Work

We work alongside professionals
to get you to and through retirement, ethically

Independent recognition matters to us

Our approach to financial planning and ethical investing has been recognised by independent organisations committed to transparency and responsible advice.

Winner Mindful Money Awards - 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026

Who we work with

We work with professionals and couples, including managers, scientists, doctors, engineers, public servants, IT specialists and other analytical thinkers, who value expert guidance and thoughtful decision-making.

Many of our clients have paid off their mortgage and are focused on how their savings and investments can support the life they want, both as they approach retirement and once they are living it.

How we help

We provide thoughtful financial planning for life after work - bringing together investment strategy, retirement planning, and ongoing advice in a way that’s clear, ethical, and grounded.

Financial Planning

Understanding your position, clarifying priorities, and creating a plan that brings everything together

Retirement and Investment Planning

Structuring and managing investments to support income, flexibility and peace of mind

Ongoing Advice and Review

Staying alongside you as life changes, markets move and decisions evolve

How we work

We start by understanding you

We take the time to understand your goals, priorities, constraints, and what matters most to you.

We create and implement a clear plan

Bringing together financial planning, retirement strategy, and investments into a coherent whole.

We review and adapt over time

Staying alongside you as life changes, markets move, and decisions evolve.

  

Paul, Carey and Peter at the Mindful Money Awards

We’re a small, experienced team of financial planning professionals who work closely together to support our clients over the long term, particularly as they move into and through retirement

Carey - Managing Director, Financial Planner and Ethical Investment Adviser
Paul - Financial Planner and Ethical Investment Adviser
Peter - Financial Planner and Ethical Investment Adviser

What guides our work

Ethical investing and financial planning means different things to different people. We work with our clients to understand what matters to them and reflect that in their financial planning and investment decisions.

Integrity

Honesty

Trust

Respect

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Planning before 40

Planning 40-65

Planning after 65

9 Steps to Financial Planning

Insights and Resources

We regularly publish articles and commentary on investing, retirement, risk, and financial decision-making.

What Do You Actually Want?

Most people start a financial planning conversation with a number in mind. A retirement age. A target balance. An income they think they will need. These starting points are useful, but they are rareRead more

The Other Way To Give

By 9.45 on a U3A Cambridge morning, the doors have been open for fifteen minutes and the room is already more than half full. Not people sitting waiting for something to start, but people talking,Read more

Deciding What We Can Live With

I was at an RIAA conference session on geopolitics and sovereign risk, listening to two fund managers explain how they navigate ethical investing when the world gets complicated. One story from thatRead more

Mining is needed, but it makes a mess

Mining is needed, but it makes a mess September 2026 — publication date to be confirmed I moderated a panel at the RIAA conference In Septemberå called "Can Mining Be A Responsible Investment?",Read more

Seventy is the new Fifty

The clients we have worked with for twenty-five years or more are sometimes the most instructive. Many of them do not feel much different from when we first met them. They have left full-time work, bRead more

Why We Give The Way We Give

There was a story in the Cambridge News earlier this year about a local man with significant physical disabilities who gets around on a mobility scooter. His scooter has been breaking down. People inRead more

Reflections on Africa

Peter and I have just returned from five weeks in East Africa. Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar to finish, travelling with The Safari Company https://www.thesafaricompany.co.nz/. I wantRead more

You Can't Eat Bricks

A client of ours described the moment clearly. She had reached her early sixties with an investment property, a bach, and a financial plan that had always assumed both would eventually look afterRead more

Good journalism did not disappear. It just moved.

I have been reading Heather Cox Richardson since 2017, when she started posting on Facebook. Back then she was a history professor at Boston College writing about American politics through the lensRead more

Managing geopolitical risk in your investments

The world has changed faster than most investment frameworks have caught up with. For most of our working lives, the rules were reasonably clear: the United States underwrote global security, developRead more

What people get wrong about "having enough"

One of the questions that comes up most often in our work, sometimes asked directly, more often circling around the edges of a conversation, is some version of: how do I know when I have enough? ItRead more

Words Matter More Than Ever

In law school, they taught us that words matter. Not just any words, the right words. The discipline of legal writing is built on that idea. Think about the last time you wrote to a company andRead more

Our Community Involvement

"I have worked with Moneyworks for many years and value the trusted financial advice they provide. Their advice is always timely, tailored to my circumstances, and educational. I value the relationship and the consistently sound guidance that underpins it."

Richard Murcott - Wellington

 

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