There's a saying - "life's a journey not a destination" - we travel through it picking up experience as we go. Looking back at my journey so far, I can hardly believe that I've ended up where I am. Don't get me wrong, I've had a relatively charmed life: loving family, good education, married my teenage sweetheart, Catherine, and I’ve always had a job. But things rarely work out the way we think they will.

I was a punk in the '70s - influenced by Vietnam, the growing nuclear threat and racism, I found that the music of the Clash and others articulated my own feelings. With CND, rock against racism and the "right to work" movement, we thought we were going to change the world. But then it all turned a bit sour. Margaret Thatcher got into power and we became consumers in the shiny new '80s. Pragmatism set in and finance was the business to work in. I was there too. Always a bit of a 'square peg', I could never reconcile the demand for targets and profits with what my clients actually needed and I didn't really like what we were recommending either. Then I discovered ethical investment. Here was something that was trying to make a difference and, importantly to me, in the business that I knew all about. For me, ‘ethical’ is as much about how you advise people as the investments you select.

In creating ethicalfutures, I like to think that we’re still true to my punk roots: keeping it small and challenging big business and conventional wisdom. I don't have a safety pin through my ear anymore, but I hope that you'll agree that we're a bit different from the average financial services company.

I believe in quality financial planning advice and was delighted to have my skills recognised when I was awarded the Money Management Ethical Investment Planner of the Year 2007 Award.

I mainly look after personal clients, trust and charity investments. I look forward to meeting you.

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Martin Wight, Partner
Emma Todd, Administrator