Independent Investment Advice

Expert Independent Financial Advice for Investments, ISAs, and More

Looking to take control of your finances? At Bloomfield Financial, we make investing simple and stress-free. Our Independent Financial Advice and Investment Advice are tailored to help you achieve your goals, whether that’s growing your wealth, saving for the future, or managing your money smarter.

We’re here to help with everything from ISAs and Investment Bonds to comprehensive Wealth Management. Whether you’re starting fresh or already have a plan in place, we can work with you as part of a Holistic Financial Plan or provide standalone Investment Advice.

Clear, Transparent Advice You Can Trust

We know how important it is to feel confident in your decisions. That’s why we’re upfront about everything—no hidden charges or confusing jargon. All our fees are laid out clearly in the FAQ section below, so you know exactly what to expect.

Our advice is flexible to suit your needs. Need one-off guidance for a specific goal? We can help. Prefer ongoing support and advice? We’re here for the long haul, working with you to keep your finances on track.

Book Your Free Initial Chat

Your first step is easy—and completely free! Book an initial chat to tell us more about your goals and get to know how we work. By the end of the chat, we’ll both know if we’re the right fit to help you.

Here’s how we can meet:

  • In-person: Our office in Houghton le Spring is perfectly located just off the A690, right between Sunderland, Durham, and Newcastle Upon Tyne.
  • Online: Prefer a video call? Many of our clients do! We work with people all over the UK this way.


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FAQs, Appointment Booking, Legal Bits, Costs Etc.

We offer an ‘Independent’ service. This means that we are not restricted to using any one provider or using any particular products.

We will advise and make a recommendation for you after we have assessed your needs. Our recommendation will be based on a comprehensive and fair analysis of the market.

We do not offer an ‘information only’ service we will always provide personal advice and a recommendation based upon your specific needs and circumstances.

Initial Advice

After thoroughly exploring your financial situation, goals and objectives, resources and attitude to risk as well as your capacity for loss and level of risk you need to take we will make an initial recommendation for investment products and investment funds as appropriate.

As part of the initial advice service, we will also implement those recommendations where accepted and to the extent that recommended product providers will allow.

If you elect not to take an ongoing service we will ensure that you are clear on how you can administer your new plans going forward. Where an initial advice service only has been selected we will not check or confirm in that any recommendation remains suitable in future years as your circumstances and the legislative and financial landscape may change. Our obligation to you is discharged when your initial advice and recommendations have been delivered and discharged.

Ongoing Advice and Service

Ongoing advice can only be provided after initial advice and is not available on a ‘stand-alone basis’.

Ongoing Advice and Services include but are not limited to;

  • At least one annual meeting in person or remotely to assess your arrangements and make any changes necessary.
  • Access to our in house investment portfolios that are managed on an ongoing basis.
  • An online portal will be supplied to all clients who require one that will allow access to investment valuations, policy details and documents if supported by the individual products.
  • Unlimited communication and administrative assistance during normal office hours.

For clients with ongoing service, there are no further initial charges for moving money we are already managing for you from one plan to another. For example, moving investment monies to your ISA when your new allowance becomes available each tax year

Initial Advice.

The charge for initial advice service is 2% of the funds invested and advised upon subject to a minimum fee of £850.

There is no obligation to take ongoing advice. Where no ongoing advice is to be taken we will make recommendations for funds and providers that can be administered without professional support is required. For example, we will not recommend a portfolio of investment funds that may change their risk profile over time through ‘drift’, i.e. some funds performing better than others and skewing the risk profile. Therefore we do need to know at outset if you will not be engaging in our ongoing advice services.

Ongoing Advice.

Where an ongoing advice service is selected the cost will be 1% per year of funds managed subject to a minimum of £500 per year. Ongoing service fees are paid by monthly installments equal to 1/12th of 1% of the balance of funds per month.

Fee Examples

Initial charges:  Where a 2% charge would equal an amount smaller than the minimum fee of  £850 we will adjust the charge to equal the minimum fee.

For example;

If you were investing £40,000 then a 2% charge would equal £800 below our minimum so we would effectively increase our charge to 2.12% to make the charge £850.

If you were investing £150,000 a 2% charge would equal £3,000 which is more than the minimum fee for standard and complex advice and thus no adjustment to the percentage fee would be necessary.

Ongoing charges: Where the funds being managed are below £50,000 the annual charge levied would not meet our minimum of £500 so a higher % charge will be set at outset to ensure the minimum charge is met. For example, if we were managing investments for you valued at £20,000 the charge would be adjusted to 2.5% per year to meet our minimum annual charge. Where a % increase has been set to meet minimum charging requirements, the % will be adjusted at each annual review.

Ongoing service provision – Your right to cancel Should you decide to cancel our agreement to provide ongoing services, please provide written confirmation of your decision and we will cease your payments for these services within thirty business days and after collection of any due proportion of any periods of charges. Any payments already collected are not refundable and are deemed to have been for advice and support services and availability provided to date.

Initial Advice: Payment is due after the advice has been issued, accepted and at the point of implementation.

Should you decide not to proceed with the recommendations or cancel the process before the advice is delivered, no payments would be due.

Ongoing Advice: Ongoing advice charges are payable monthly at a rate of 1/12th of the annual total.

Payments can be made via:

  • Deduction From Investment
  • Bank Transfer
  • Cheque
  • Direct Debit
  • Credit / Debit Card

Where the investment is a regular sum rather than a lump sum the initial charge can be divided into 11 instalments and collected by direct debit or deduction from the investment product.

Important Info: Mortgages

Please remember your home or property may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

We give clients the option to pay for mortgage advice by fee rather than commission.

The FCA does not regulate all Buy to Let mortgages.

Important Info: Regulations

The Financial Conduct Authority does not regulate, Will Writing, Buy to Let Mortgages, Tax Advice and Estate Planning.

Tax rules can change at any time.

Important Info: Investments

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

The value of investments, and the income from them, may fall or rise.

Your capital at risk. Investments can fluctuate in value and investors may not get the amount back they invest.