About Verano.
Helping clients make informed financial decisions.
Verano Financial Planning was founded on a simple belief: good financial planning helps people make informed decisions about their future with greater clarity and confidence.
Many of life’s most important decisions involve uncertainty. Whether planning for retirement, investing for the future, protecting loved ones, or navigating major life changes, the choices we make today can have lasting consequences.
Verano was created to help people navigate those decisions thoughtfully. By combining careful analysis with clear communication and a genuinely personal approach, Verano helps clients understand their options, weigh the trade-offs, and move forward with confidence.
The goal is not simply to provide financial advice, but to become a trusted partner in helping clients make financial decisions that support the life they want to lead.
The key principles behind Verano
Clarity over complexity
Evidence before opinion
Confidence through understanding
A long-term
perspective
Meet Greg
Financial Planner.
Chartered Actuary.
Trusted Adviser.
Qualifications:
– Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning (DipPFS)
– Chartered Actuary (Fellow)
(C.Act FIA CERA)
Memberships:
Personal Finance Society
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Greg has spent more than 12 years working as a pensions actuary across both the public and private sectors. His career includes over seven years with Deloitte, including a secondment to BT Pension Scheme, one of the UK’s largest pension arrangements, and almost five years with the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD), where he advised on some of the UK’s largest public service pension schemes, including the NHS, Teachers’, Police, Firefighters’ and Local Government Pension Schemes, both in Scotland and across the other UK regions.
Throughout his career, Greg has helped decision-makers navigate complex financial challenges and make informed long-term choices. While he enjoyed the technical aspects of the role, he found the most rewarding part was helping people understand complex issues and gain confidence in their decisions.
That experience ultimately led him to the creation of Verano.
Today, Greg helps clients make important financial decisions with confidence, combining evidence-based thinking with clear, straightforward communication. He believes good financial planning should simplify life, not complicate it.
Greg lives in Perth, Scotland, with his wife, Alison, and their two sons. Away from work, he enjoys running, keeping fit, following football and making the most of Scotland’s great outdoors.
Although Verano does not provide actuarial services, Greg’s background continues to shape his approach, bringing analytical rigour, attention to detail and long-term thinking to every client relationship.
Financial Planner.
Chartered Actuary.
Trusted Adviser.
Qualifications:
– Diploma in Regulated Financial Planning (DipPFS)
– Chartered Actuary (Fellow)
(C.Act FIA CERA)
Memberships:
Personal Finance Society
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries