Nick Platt
Managing director & Chartered financial planner
Professionally
Nick founded Henwood Court over 20 years ago with a simple but unfashionable conviction: that genuine financial planning starts with understanding someone’s life, not their portfolio.
That conviction has not changed. What has changed is his understanding of how deeply most people, including many of the wealthiest, get money wrong. Not the mechanics of it, but the purpose of it.
People spend decades building wealth and then do not know what it is for. They accumulate when they should be spending. They defer the life they actually want in favour of a number that keeps moving.
Nick wrote Retireability: An Executive’s Guide to Thriving in Retirement because he had seen this happen too many times, to too many people who should have known better.
Today, Nick leads Henwood Court as Founder and Managing Director. His focus is on the firm’s direction, culture and growth: bringing in the clients who are the right fit for what the business does best, and making sure the Henwood Court name means something beyond the people who already know it.
He is a sought-after voice on the relationship between money, freedom and what a genuinely well-lived life looks like.
Personally
Nick is married to Victoria and they have two grown-up daughters. After family time, Nick enjoys his love of cycling, testing his patience with golf and travelling (ideally with his bike and Vicki, of course). He’s an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction but avoids DIY at all costs.
Nick is learning Spanish again and hopes to combine his skills with a cycling trip around Spain.
