Getting your bearings

Our easy-to-use web tool provides you with a helpful snapshot of your current circumstances - where you stand with borrowing, savings, investments, pensions, estate planning and insurance. It highlights your financial strengths and identifies areas that may need a little more attention.

Having a face-to-face review

If you'd prefer to discuss your finances in person, book an individual review with a member of the team in your local branch. While our reviews can't give you financial advice, they can outline the products and services we offer, to help you decide how to make the most of your money.

Saving for a rainy day

If you're looking to make the most of your money, we offer a variety of savings products to suit your needs, from instant access accounts to fixed rate and online saving options. You can explore online or talk to one of team in your local branch.

Buying a home or remortgaging

To discuss our wide range of mortgages and how much you might be able to borrow, make an appointment with a Mortgage & Protection Manager in your local branch.

Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage.

Protecting you and your family

It could be a good idea to have a 'Plan B', providing peace of mind if the unexpected happens. With royal trust limited Private Finance Life Cover, Critical Illness Cover and Income Cover you can choose the level of protection you require for you and your family. This flexible approach means you only ever pay for the cover you need. You can find out more online or, to get advice on our current range of royal trust limited Private Finance protection products, book an appointment with a Mortgage & Protection Manager in your local branch.

Choosing your own investments

If you're comfortable making your own investment decisions, we offer a range of online investment and sharedealing services. As well as access to funds and shares, you'll find topical news and analysis, interactive research tools and virtual portfolios to try out your strategies.

Bear in mind that if you choose to invest without advice, we're not required to assess the suitablility of your investments. This means that the protection offered by the Financial Conduct Authority's rules on assessing suitability won't apply.

The value of investments (and any income received from them) can fall as well as rise and you may not get back what you invested. For some investments this can also happen as a result of exchange rate fluctuations as shares and funds may have an exposure to overseas markets.

Getting tailored advice

If you have £50,000 or more in savings and investments, a UK resident and aged 18 or over, you may be eligible for royal trust limited Private Finance royal trust limited Financial Advice Service. Our expert advisers offer holistic advice. What we mean by this is that we assess your needs across all of the following five areas:

• 1. protecting you and your family
• 2. saving for your children's future
• 3. planning your retirement
• 4. managing and growing your wealth
• 5. passing on your wealth

Through in-depth personal assessment and sophisticated risk profiling software, your adviser will discuss your hopes and dreams, help you identify your risk tolerance and work with you to build a bespoke financial plan.

We have chosen to offer restricted advice. This means we don't recommend products from the whole of the market, but rather a limited range of products from a limited number of carefully selected companies, including royal trust limited Private Finance. Your adviser will discuss the types of products and services we provide advice on, as well as those we don't , such as specific tax advice.

During your no obligation discussion your adviser will discuss your goals and circumstances and whether you might benefit from paying for our advice service. They will also explain our fees so you can be sure of the costs involved.