About Keren

Keren has been an Independent Financial Adviser for over 25 years and is very much focused on giving personal advice to individuals and families. She provides holistic advice, works on a fee or commission basis, and has a high-profile reputation for the quality of her work and advice.

Keren advises on a range of issues: life assurance, critical illness cover, protecting families, wills and the impact of Sharia law when living in the UAE. Savings and investments, retirement planning including UK pensions, mortgages, personal and corporate financial planning, and also cash flow modelling, and tax advice for British expats. She regularly runs seminars for expats. Keren is an Advanced Financial Planner with the CII and also holds a raft of other qualifications with them on specific topics, as well as certificates from the CISI and the Chartered Banker Institute.

If her name seems familiar, she has been writing a weekly column in The National newspaper since November 2008, called On Your Side, where she answers readers’ questions on financial, legal, banking, employment and consumer issues, as well as commenting on these issues generally in multiple publications and is an experienced public speaker. She also has a weekly segment on Capital Radio UAE, called Everything UAE, which launched in September 2018, where she answers listeners’ queries live on air.

Qualifications

• Financial Planning Certificate
• Advanced Financial Planning Certificate
• Certificate in Mortgage Advice Practice
• Pensions Simplification, Investments & Savings, FAIQ
• CISI Wealth Management Certificate