Wealth manager and Financial Planner Evelyn Partners has appointed Chartered Financial Planner Mickey Armstrong as a Financial Planner in its Knutsford, Cheshire office, recruiting him from a Dubai firm.

The appointment is part of the firm’s continued North West expansion, it said.

Mr Armstrong joins Evelyn from AES International in Dubai where he worked as a Chartered Financial Planner and advised high net worth expats.

Before that he spent more than six years at Equilibrium Financial Planning in Wilmslow, Cheshire where he was a Chartered Financial Planner focusing on retirement and lifestyle planning.  

He will be based at Evelyn Partners’ office at Booths Park in Chelford Road, Knutsford, which is home to a team of expert Financial Planners and investment professionals.

Tom Hunt, Financial Planning director in Evelyn Partners’ Knutsford office, said: “We are continuing to see increasing demand from clients for our services and I’m confident Mickey’s expat offshore experience will be invaluable and add another dimension to our skillset.” 

Mr Armstrong said: “Having made the decision to repatriate back to the UK, I felt it was at a pivotal point in my career and choosing a firm whose values and ambitions match my own was crucial. After extensive research, I felt Evelyn Partners are leading the way in providing a Financial Planning proposition that can seamlessly link with other professional services.”

Evelyn Partners is a wealth management and professional services group, created following the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson in 2020. With £59.1bn of assets under management (as at 31 December 2023) it is one the largest UK wealth managers and also the seventh largest UK accountancy firm ranked by fee income (source: Accountancy Age 50+50 rankings, 2023).

It has a network of offices across 29 towns and cities in the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. Through its operating companies, the Group offers financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.