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A record of your whole financial life

Yours, and your family’s, for life.

Every property, business, trust and account, written down properly in one book. Share it, or just the right pages, with your family. Invite your adviser, fund manager, accountant, anyone who helps. They come and go. The book stays yours.

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The Land Rover

Chattels · Series IIA, 1968
Watercolour: the Land Rover on the lawn by the coach house
Worth£38,000
Came fromJonathan’s grandfather, 1994
InsuredAgreed value · renews October
Thursday
14 May 2026 · the diary
Met Marcus at the slipway, 10ish. Lady Anne’s survey — he’s looking at the coach house roof too. Report in a fortnight. £900 ish, invoice to follow.Invoice in — £950, Berthon. ✓
Charlie hung this on the boat and the house

March House

Property · Fittleworth, West Sussex
Watercolour: March House from the drive
Worth£8,000,000
What you paid£4,000,000 · March 2011
Tax positionMain home · nothing on a sale
Watercolour: Our Investment Portfolio — a doughnut of eight classes with their shares and the total, the London skyline and the river beneath

School fees

Tom · the next few years · Kingsmere, then university
2026 / 27£42,750
2027 / 28£9,535
2028 / 29£9,535
2029 / 30£9,535
In all£71,355
The JISA his grandmother started£38,000
Ellie next, 2028

Lady Anne

Chattels · Botnia Targa 46, 2019
Watercolour: Lady Anne at Ocean Village
Worth£585,000
SourceBroker valuation · Berthon, April
BerthOcean Village, Southampton · C14

What it’s all worth

By chapter · valued this morning
Property, three houses£4,035,000
Pensions and ISAs£2,463,180
The boat, the piano, the rest£637,000
All of it£7,135,180
A record of a whole financial life

The Alderton Family

Kept since 2026
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One book. A whole life in it. Kept for life.

Put your life in

You, your family, the houses, the boat, the car your grandfather left you. Then what it all costs. Every value confesses its source.

Charlie reads it

One intelligence that has read the whole story, and notices when your spending and your plan disagree.

Invite who you like

Your adviser, fund manager, accountant, family. Advice stays with the regulated firm. The book stays with you.

What the book covers

Your life first. The money follows.

Most money tools start with the money. Wealthbook starts with you: your family, your houses, your things, your days. They are what the money is for. If you had none of them you would need none of it. So the book begins with the life, works out what it costs, and only then asks what you need, what’s set aside, and what’s left to give away. As many chapters as your life has.

The family at a harbour café table, watercolour
Who it’s for

You and your family

The book opens with the people, not the money. Who you are, who is in the family, what you’re hoping for, and who helps. Everything after this page exists because of this page.

  • Everyone by name, and their part in the family
  • What you want the money to do
  • Who may see which pages
A red-brick house at dusk, watercolour
What you own

Property

Every house, flat and field: what it is, what you paid, what it’s worth today and how you know, and its story in your own words.

  • The purchase, the improvements, the plot points since
  • Tenure, ownership and who lives there
  • Its documents and its photographs, kept with it
A 1968 Land Rover on the lawn, watercolour
What you own

Chattels

The things: cars, boats, pictures, the piano. Handed down, bought, leased or lent. Not because they are investments, but because they are your life, and they cost money to keep.

  • What it is and where it came from
  • What it costs to keep, year on year
  • What it’s worth, and who said so

Everything above costs money to keep. That is why it is in the book.Take the family, the houses and the things away and you would need no money at all. So the book starts with them, and lets the money follow.

Lady Anne, a Targa 46, in the marina, watercolour
What it costs

Cash flow & spending

Here the life turns into money. The berth, the roof, the school fees, the Tuesday shop. What all of the above costs, what comes in to pay for it, and what that says about how much you actually need.

  • What each thing in the book costs you
  • Income and outgoings, month by month
  • What you need, worked out, not guessed
A desk scene, watercolour: on the left a painted panel headed Pensions & investments — what's set aside to pay for the life above, and a table of eight classes with their total; on the right a spiral notebook with a doughnut chart of the portfolio above a London skyline
What’s set aside

Pensions & investments

What’s set aside to pay for the life above: pensions, ISAs, portfolios, the bond. Valued from the platform, not from memory, and read against what you need.

  • Every account and who manages it
  • Valuations with their source and date
  • Contributions, drawdowns and charges
VI
the trust · to be painted
How it’s held

Structures

How things are held: trusts, companies, partnerships, powers of attorney. The scaffolding behind the assets.

  • Each structure, its purpose and its people
  • What sits inside it
  • The deeds and letters that made it
VII
the diary hand · to be painted
What happened

Diary

What happened and what’s due: calls, meetings, letters, the roof, the renewal, the pool cleaned on Saturday. Written as it happens, never from memory, so the book is a life and not a spreadsheet.

  • Every call and meeting, with who and when
  • Follow-ups until they’re done
  • The month ahead, at a glance
VIII
the ledger · to be painted
What’s left

Inheritance

Once you know what you need, you know what you don’t. What’s left, to whom, and how: gifts now, wills later, the estate as it stands today. The chapter your family will thank you for.

  • Wills, executors and where they are
  • Gifts made and when
  • The estate today, and the tax it would bear
Not a planner

A record, not advice.

Wealthbook is not regulated and doesn’t give advice. It keeps the record. You write down what you own and what you owe, you keep the log, you see what you spend and you plan. Charlie reads it and tells you what she notices.

Invite an IFA into the pages that concern them, or don’t. Advised or not advised, and you can take them out again. Advice stays with the regulated firm. The book stays with you.

For advisers

Your client’s whole picture, kept by them.

A client who keeps a Wealthbook arrives with the record already written: the properties, the structures, the accounts, the story. You are invited into the pages that concern you and see exactly what they see.

Your own notes and letters stay the firm’s. Theirs stay theirs. When the engagement ends, so does the invitation.

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