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Company No. 4672624
Registered Office
The Dealmakers Club Limited,
10 St Mary At Hill,
London EC3R 8EE
 
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geoffrey pointon

Geoffrey Pointon
Chairman

 

 
Geoffrey Pointon, Chairman, founded Dealmakers 5 years ago. (PYV Group's founding Chairman and CEO.)

As a recognised authority within the UK’s insurance and pension industries, over the last forty years, Geoffrey has built a reputation for consistently challenging the status quo and innovating successful financial products.

On leaving national service in 1957,Geoffrey began his career in London with Equity & Law. In 1964 he joined Stenhouse International Insurance Brokers where he became Marketing Director of the Midlands region.

In 1971 Geoffrey founded Pointon York Limited, which developed subsidiaries that have provided a wide range of financial services such as stock broking, fund management, commercial insurance broking, employee benefits and independent financial advice.

In the 1970s Geoffrey actively promoted higher standards throughout the Financial Services industry. He helped form the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) and contributed to the Insurance Brokers Registration Act and its subsequent regulator the Insurance Brokers Registration Council (IBRC). Later, Geoffrey became deputy Chairman of the Association of Licensed Dealers (ALDS), the National Association of Security Dealers and Investment Managers (NASDIM) and the Financial Investment Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association (FIMBRA) from which he retired in 1986.

Following his innovative approach to Directors Pension Schemes, known as SSAS, Geoffrey became the founding Chairman of the Association of Pensioner Trustees (APT), the Trade Body for Self Administered Pension Schemes (SAS).

In 1985 Geoffrey's Group acquired Philip Vos & Partners, a Lloyds Broker. This business, now known as PYV Limited, has been developed in to a leading provider of professional indemnity insurance to IFA, Solicitors and other professions.

In 1990 Pointon York became the first provider to issue a Self Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) which have become the UK's first choice for individual and property SIPPs.

Geoffrey who owns the Quality Chophouse, a distinguished London restaurant, is personal adviser and mentor to many important clients including several well known celebrities and of course founder of the successful Dealmakers Club based in London.

Geoffrey is a freeman and former member of the Court of Commom Council of the City of London.

 
 
 
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