- 01624 660220
- St. John’s Mill, St. John’s, Isle of Man, IM4 3AF
- Mon-Fri 09:00 - 17:00
Looking for expert, chartered level financial advice? Ready to plan your future? Recently moved to the Island? Planning for retirement or wanting to review your investments?
Since 2000, we’ve been providing financial planning, retirement, and investment advice to private individuals, trustees and business owners on the Isle of Man.
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We believe money is just a means to live a fulfilled life, and financial planning done properly can be a big advantage to you in the effort to achieve this. At Thornton, we marshal your financial resources to help you prosper throughout all stages and transitions in life, whatever they may be.
Our Chartered status is your guarantee of a higher level of expertise in personal and business financial advice, as it requires us to be held to prestigious standards set out by the Personal Finance Society.
As a Chartered Financial Planning firm Thornton is required to have a Chartered Financial Planner available for clients within ten days of a request, although we would always try to facilitate sooner.
Our focus is on delivering exceptional outcomes for our clients, hopefully their comments on our service will inspire confidence that we can do the same for you.
Whilst every person we deal with has unique requirements, our example case studies relate to real world requests that could be of interest to you.
As a Chartered Financial Planning firm we are required to have a team of highly qualified and experienced people.
Having founded Thornton in 2000, Sharon became the island’s first Chartered Financial Planner in 2009 and was national President of the Personal Finance Society for the year 2017/18 having been first elected to the board in 2012.
Born on the Isle of Man, Sharon is married to fellow Director Jools and together they enjoy cycling, running and skiing with their son Luke. Both Sharon and Jools are passionate about their island home and investing back into the local community.
A Chartered Financial Planner and Trust & Estate Practitioner, John spent most of his working life with Friends Provident International in 1990, fulfilling various roles in investments, tax and estate planning.
Born on the Isle of Man, John enjoys outdoor activities with his family of two young daughters and wife Jill, a Community Occupational Therapist.
Natalie entered the finance sector in 2009 with Friends Provident International. Starting in Customer Services, she quickly progressed to the Technical Department and attained the coveted Chartered Financial Planner status, and won the island’s Glyn Gilbert Award for Academic Excellence.
Manx born, Natalie plays rugby at Vagabonds RUFC in her spare time, and has recently added cooking to her large list of hobbies.
Jools joined Sharon in 2007 and studied to achieve the diploma in Financial Planning, Dip PFS. Jools now heads up the finance and compliance areas of the business.
An eight time winner of the Isle of Man Golf Championship with a golfing career highlight of playing in the Seniors British Open at Turnberry in 2006, Jools likes trying to keep fit so can continue to cycle, run, ski and of course play golf.
Kate joined Thornton in a key client supporting role in 2010, following four years in the Discretionary Team in the Investment Department at AXA Isle of Man.
Manx born, Kate was schooled at Castle Rushen before going on to the University of Chester. Kate enjoys travelling with her young family but when on island, a trip to Fenella Beach in Peel brings back happy childhood memories.
Achieving a Higher National Diploma in Business and Finance, Clare worked for the Operations Team and Trust Team of Coutts (IOM) Limited before moving to Barclays Wealth in the Credit Operation Team and then joining the Thornton team in 2014.
Born in Northern Ireland, Clare moved to the island in 2000. Married to Peter with two children, Clare spends her free time running, exercising and spending time with family and friends.
As a long established and successful Island business, we are committed to giving back to our community, with particular focus on island sport.
Sharon, a competitor in the 2002 Commonwealth Games and Husband Jools, an eight times winner of the Isle of Man Golf Championships, are passionate supporters of sport on the island, with Sharon being Vice Chair of the Sport Aid Committee for 12 years.
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