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Financial Planning Team
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Jamie Albinson
Firm Principal
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About Jamie Albinson CeMAP DipFA, Firm Principal
Prior to joining the financial services industry, Jamie spent many years as a professional sportsman. As a consequence he has a natural camaraderie with people, which builds a foundation for strong working relationships.
An instinctive quality Jamie has is the need to better himself, with a strong emphasis on his personal development. He is a Certified Financial Adviser from the Institute of Financial Services and continues his professional development ensuring that his industry knowledge remains relevant and current enabling him to offer an uncompromised level of service tailored to the client’s needs, circumstances and financial goals.
Whether you are a working professional looking to grow, manage, protect or preserve your wealth or a business owner looking to ensure you have the right plans in place for your company, Jamie and Cottons Financial Planning will provide the most comprehensive and appropriate advice for you.
Based in Greater Manchester, Jamie provides wealth management advice to clients both within the city of Manchester, and more widely throughout the north west of England.
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Mark Albinson
Firm Principal
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About Mark Albinson CeFA DipFA MLIBF, Firm Principal
Mark Albinson began his career at a leading UK bank offering financial planning to high net worth individuals and has been in the financial services industry since 2004.
In 2010 Mark founded Cottons and grew the business into a well-established firm in the north west. He brings a great knowledge of retirement and investment planning along with Inheritance Tax.
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Alex Burgess
Client Servicing Manager
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About Alex Burgess DipFA CertCII(MP), Client Servicing Manager
Alex Burgess offers a wealth of experience and knowledge to all clients.
Alex’s passion for offering quality advice and supporting people to meet their long term life goals started almost 13 years ago, when he started working for a leading UK bank as a Corporate Account Manager. Alex went on to provide advice on various aspects of financial planning including investment planning, protection, pensions and long-term care to a wide variety of corporate clients for the banking organisation.
Looking for a change he went onto specialise in financial planning for healthcare professionals and high net worth individuals and has a wealth of knowledge around their needs and solutions.
Alex’s strong work ethic, offering comprehensive and appropriate advice has built a foundation for effective and lasting working relationships with clients and vendors alike.
He is a qualified Financial Adviser from the Institute of Financial Services and continues his professional development ensuring that his industry knowledge remains relevant and current enabling him to offer an uncompromised level of service to meet his clients’ requirements.
Before joining Cottons Financial Planning Alex was an adviser at a local IFA firm, as he believed that a client centric approach had been missed by larger banking organisations. He brings these core values to Cottons Financial Planning offering an expert service of quality and excellence in order to give financial peace of mind to clients.
Based in Greater Manchester Alex offers support to clients within the city and the wider area of the north west of England.
When not in the office Alex loves watching live sport or can be found enjoying a round of golf.
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Carmen Ramos
Paraplanner
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About Carmen Ramos DipFA CeMap, Paraplanner
With over 15 years’ experience in the financial services industry working for a number of retail banking institutions, Carmen has a Diploma in Financial Planning and is CeMap qualified.
Carmen has spent many years in roles with a client facing element and has a customer centric approach. Her wealth of knowledge across mortgages, insurance, savings, investment and pension planning enables Carmen to deliver financial planning reports and technical terminology in a manner easy for clients to understand.
The substantial experience of dealing with advice complaints and Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) case handling, has made Carmen passionate about providing high quality customer service and customer solutions. Carmen’s natural instinct to provide the most comprehensive and appropriate advice supports the objective of Cottons Financial Planning to provide an uncompromised level of service tailored to the client’s needs, circumstances and financial goals.
Outside of Cottons Financial Planning, Carmen is usually busy chasing around after her children. With Spanish heritage the love of travel is in her blood, with particular enjoyment in speaking Spanish and tasting Spanish culinary delights.
Head Office Team
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Hannah Loney
Head of Marketing
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Hannah has worked for a number of large organisations since graduating with a Marketing Communications and Advertising degree, and is a marketing professional. Along with bringing a wealth of commercial marketing experience and campaign expertise to the Cottons’ team, she assists the business in delivering marketing campaigns and commercial projects to meet with the overall business strategies and growth plans.