Warwick Butchart Associates Ltd

Our Advisers…

One of our real strengths is that our advisers work very closely together as an integrated team, and our clients are therefore able to draw on the specialist knowledge and experience of all of us.

Len Warwick CBE, FSI, ACoI, MIFP
Joint Managing Director

Len is widely recognised as one of the most highly respected and influential financial advisers in Britain. A former President of the Life Insurance Association, Director of the Securities & Investments Board and Chairman of the SIB Training & Competence Panel, Len was awarded the CBE in 1996 for Services to Financial Regulation. A founder board member of the Association of Independent Financial Advisers, Len is a practicing IFA. For the last five years he has been a judge of the Planned Savings IFA of the Year Awards. Len is also the Company's Compliance Officer.

David Burren FSI, MIFP, Cert PFS
Joint Managing Director

David is an investment specialist, advising private clients, charities, and pension funds. He has over 30 years experience and held senior positions with UK and offshore financial services and investment companies before leaving the City in 1994 and joining Warwick Butchart. He became Managing Director and 50% shareholder in 1999. He is well known in investment circles, and is responsible for investment research and analysis. David frequently meets investment managers from Investment Companies, and his views have often been reported in the media.

Consultant

Jeremy joined us in 1999 following six highly successful years helping a major insurance company develop its services through independent financial advisers. Jeremy specialises in two main areas: advising personal and corporate clients on Investment matters, and creating and developing specialised pensions and employee benefits packages for companies and individuals. His experience in these two areas adds real value to the advice provided to our many corporate clients.

Tom Warwick

Consultant

Tom advises many of our corporate clients as well as individuals on a wide range of life insurance, protection, and financial and retirement planning matters. He joined Warwick Butchart after completing a specialist financial services degree in 1997. He spent a gap year conducting research for the Life Insurance Association and is a past Chairman of the Association’s Glos, Hereford and Worcs Region. Tom writes on a regular basis for weekly financial services publications.

Janet Davies

Care Fees Planning Consultant

Janet joined Warwick Butchart in January 2004 to head our specialist Care Fees Planning Division. She is very well known for her work within the Long Term Care arena - having an excellent reputation for high ethics and service. Janet won her Intermediary Award category at the Health Insurance Magazine Awards held in London in October 2004 – the main industry event for health insurance and protection intermediaries and providers. Janet  was runner-up in the Health Insurance Awards in both 2000 and 2001 for Best Long Term Care Intermediary. Janet has provided advice and help with the funding of Long Term Care Fees to clients, professional advisers, and industry bodies, and she has been at the forefront of industry developments in Long Term Care advice and training.

Peter Wischhusen

Many of our clients will be saddened to learn that Peter died on October 9th, age 62 from acute myeloid leukaemia, after a short illness. In addition to being an excellent, experienced and highly valued financial adviser and colleague, Peter's remarkable life touched many others. So much so, that his funeral was reported in the local and national media and was attended by hundreds of friends, family and colleagues. Shortly before his death, Peter was presented with the "Paul Harris Fellow Award (PHF)", the highest honour bestowed by Rotary International on a serving Rotarian. The PHF is awarded to a person who has demonstrated tangible and significant assistance to the furtherance of better understanding among peoples in the world. Over the last 8 years, Peter had worked tirelessly on a voluntary basis for the Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA) and the outstanding facilities and equipment SARA now has are due in the main to Peter's outstanding fund-raising and marketing skills. On his final journey, Peter was carried in a SARA lifeboat. It was Peter's wish that his funeral should be used to raise money for SARA, the charity he served so well, and in particular towards completing the building of a new annex at the Beachley lifeboat station near the Severn Bridge at Chepstow - one of the most dangerous waters in the world. Many thousands of pounds are still needed to complete this project, and donations in Peter's name would be greatly appreciated by SARA.