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Smart & Cook Financial Services

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Address:	1-2 Blackfriars Court Newcastle Upon Tyne Tyne and Wear
Postcode:	NE1 4XB
Telephone:	0191 233 1030
Website:	http://www.smartandcook.co.uk/
Financial Advisors By Type:	General Financial Planning, Mortgage Advice
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Smart & Cook provides professional insurance broking, risk management and financial advice of the highest standard and has grown consistently through client recommendation, professional introduction and planned acquisition to become recognised as one of the UK’s leading independent insurance organisations. Our clients include professional practices, financial institutions and public limited companies.

What makes a Smart & Cook partnership the “smart” partnership?
As business life becomes increasingly fast changing and complex, vital decisions become ever more involved and interdependent. This new world demands technical expertise and an integrated approach to insurance broking, risk management and financial planning.

Smart & Cook can provide this together with rigorous attention to detail and a genuinely personal service. Our Clients can feel free to focus on their core business, secure in the knowledge that they are in the hands of highly responsive individuals of the utmost integrity.

Knowledgeable
Specialist knowledge is essential and our experienced staff work on our client´s behalf to achieve effective solutions and high professional standards, meeting the needs of our clients fully no matter how diverse.

Responsive
At Smart & Cook we pride ourselves in providing excellence in all aspects of service, reacting quickly and efficiently to our clients´ needs. Quality control is integral to our service.

Competitive
Smart & Cook´s market strength gives us buying power, which benefits our clients. Competitive premiums mean that Smart & Cook provides a "value for money" service offering choice and flexibility, giving our clients a complete and cost effective package.

The Smart & Cook Financial Risks division was set up in the early 1990´s. A very powerful alliance was formed with international wholesale broker Alexander Forbes and a winning formula was perfected whereby Smart & Cook could offer a comprehensive, professional and highly personalised service to businesses in the sector whilst maintaining access to specialist products and services bespoke to the industry and only available via the London, international and Lloyds insurance markets.

The Smart & Cook approach revolves around a complete understanding of our clients´ businesses gained through a structured programme of departmental visits. Smart & Cook has the skill and expertise to understand the mechanics of each individual area of an operation and is uniquely placed to convert this into a group risk management programme underpinned by appropriate insurance protection.

Our individual approach has proved to be a success within the financial institutions sector and with mortgage lenders in particular. Our ability to truly differentiate and provide a consistently high level of professional service has resulted in our appointment as corporate insurance brokers and risk advisers to an enviable number of financial institutions.

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