Blacktower sponsored NORCECA beach volleyball tournament

January 2021: The Blacktower Financial Management Group of Companies today announces the appointment of Gavin Pluck as a Group Director.

The news follows significant expansion to the brand’s global footprint and continued acceleration of its growth strategy, in the face of a challenging year.

Pluck joins Blacktower having resigned from his position as GWM Group Managing Director in February 2020, following the company’s acquisition by SkyBound Capital.

“Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.” These words, written by The eighteenth century English physician and educator Philip Latham, could just as easily have been written about trying to achieve the balance between spending happily in the present and saving prudently for retirement.

However, the question of how to do this effectively is not one that is easily answered. As it happens, too many retirement savers find that they either spend profligately in the present, thereby jeopardising their retirement lifestyle, or they prepare with too much caution, experiencing years of unnecessary frugality only to reach retirement with more money than they really need.