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Mark joined the True Bearing team in 2013. With 21 years’ experience as an Independent Financial Planner, Mark is driven to the role to help improve the lives of his clients and for them to achieve their goals and aspirations in life.
He helps his clients put together all the pieces of their financial jigsaw in order to build a picture of where they are now. From there he can help them navigate the best route to where they want to be. He looks to improve his client’s financial wellbeing by making sense of what they have got, where they want to get to and how best they can achieve it.
Mark’s main focus is on retirement planning and all that entails. His favourite saying is ‘Plans are nothing: Planning is Everything’; and he believes a good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.
Alongside his work, Mark enjoys keeping fit and spending time with his wife and two sons.
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What my Clients say
Testimonials
My husband and I had our second meeting with Mark on the 8th May 2014, as, in our previous meeting with Mark a year ago, he encouraged us not to hesitate to contact him further should our circumstances change, as indeed they had. In both meetings we found Mark advised with upmost professionalism. We found him very friendly and approachable, explaining quite complex scenarios in terms we could easily understand, his knowledge of Financial Planning advice is clearly extensive , as he was able to advise on a variety of issues we raised. We would have no hesitation to contact Mark in the future and would definitely recommend him to friends and colleagues.
Caroline and Stuart Pearson - Manchester
As I was considering early retirement last year and wanted some independent advice, I signed up to attend the one day advice session arranged by my workplace. Part of this day included a Pre Retirement Workshop delivered by Mark Russel.
His friendly approach really helped to create a relaxed atmosphere in a room full of colleagues all of whom were somewhat apprehensive and who had many questions. From start to finish Mark was able to explain and answer questions with confidence and a clear knowledge base of the specific subject matter. He was able to judge when to intervene and when to let the discussion flow so that everyone felt they had been given the opportunity to have all their questions answered.
The most helpful part of the presentation was enabling us to evaluate what exactly our needs were and what they would be if we did indeed take the opportunity to retire early. Through discussion and clear examples of how our money could be utilized to work for us Mark was able to suggest ideas and ways forward on an individual basis.
This has been invaluable on a personal level during the last year since I did make the decision to retire early last July.
“We were not pressurized to sign up to anything and indeed the follow up meeting offered after this session was really useful as it allowed time to digest all the information given and really think about what is a major decision for anyone.
Mark has continued to touch base with email information and many more colleagues have taken the opportunity to sign up for what was an invaluable session.
