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Our success, your reassurance
Professional awards can feel a bit remote – after all, we’re telling you all about how important your individual goals are, so what does it matter what others in our profession think?
Our awards and accreditations matter for two reasons.
First, they recognise the hard work we continue to put into achieving the highest possible standards. That’s a great feeling for us, but it means peace of mind for you.
Second, and most importantly, they’re an illustration that we’re serious about doing what’s best for you, that we’ll deliver on what we promise and we’ll keep on delivering.
Financial Vulnerability Charter
We have pledged to follow the nine statements outlined in the Financial Vulnerability Charter.
This is a set of commitments outlined by the Financial Vulnerability Taskforce to promote better behaviour, understanding and good practice around consumer vulnerability in the financial services sector.
This pledge highlights our commitment to our customers, providing them with excellence and trustworthiness in their financial planning service.
Featured: VouchedFor Top Rated 2024
We’re proud to announce that VouchedFor has included several of our advisers in their 2024 guide, distributed in The Times.
The guide identifies and celebrates the UK’s best financial advisers, all based on feedback from their clients. Inclusion in the guide is a tremendous honour.
Featured: Citywire New Model Adviser Top 100 – 2023
Citywire released its annual New Model Adviser Top 100, recognising the very best firms in the UK financial planning community. We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been named as one of the top 100 financial planning firms in the country.
Featured: Citywire New Model Adviser Top 100 – 2022
The New Model Adviser Top 100 for 2022 celebrates the best of the professional financial planning community.
Our inclusion in this list reflects the hard work of our team, who provide excellence in financial planning and guidance daily.
Commended: Investment Life & Pensions Moneyfacts Awards 2022, Retirement Adviser of the Year
These awards are one of the highlights of the year for the investment, life and pensions market, so we were thrilled to have been recognised in the Retirement Adviser of the Year category.
Each year rigorous product monitoring is carried out, and the financial adviser community is also consulted, to determine the winners, highly commended and commended for each award.
Winner: SME Northamptonshire Business Awards, Business of the Year (under 50 employees) & Towcester Business of the Year.
We were over the moon to win two awards at the SME Northamptonshire Business Awards 2022. Aimed at small and medium enterprises (SMEs), these awards raise the profile of “industrious, hardworking and enterprising SMEs” across Northamptonshire.
The Business of the Year Award (under 50 employees) recognises outstanding initiative, boldness and imagination in the enterprise and sound management practices.
The Towcester Business of the Year Award shows exceptional work across all aspects of running a successful SME.
Winner: Professional Services Award, Northamptonshire Business Awards 2019
The Northamptonshire Business Awards recognises exceptional businesses and business people, from global companies based locally to exciting new ventures on the up. The awards shine a spotlight on the hard working, talented teams in our county, the people who work hard for our community and those who inspire others.
Winner: South Northamptonshire Business of the Year Award
These annual awards recognise businesses that “demonstrate innovation and creativity, fostering a healthy workplace culture”.
It’s also important that the successful business is active in the community and plays a role in enhancing the local area and local economy, showing a “passion for South Northamptonshire and its development as the perfect place to work, live, visit and invest.”
Finalist/Highly Commended: Personal Finance Society Chartered Financial Planning Firm of the Year 2018/19 and 2019/20.
The Personal Finance Awards are the flagship awards for the personal finance profession.
Fortitude was shortlisted alongside three other firms from around the UK for demonstrating the highest commitment to professionalism, through the qualification and development of its people, a highly professional and ethical culture, and a strong commitment to customer care.
Winner: New Model Adviser: The Midlands – 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2019
This annual award celebrates the best professional financial planning firms across the UK.
The judging criteria for the awards take into account both quantitative factors (such as profitability and funds under advice) and qualitative factors (such as adviser qualifications, client communications, processes and commitment to improving the profession).
“We’ve planned with Fortitude since 2000. They helped us define our objectives, and it’s so reassuring to have someone who knows what they are doing guiding us.”
– Vic Edy, client