Established in 2000, Thornton Associates is the Island's first firm of Chartered financial planners. Our primary goal is to help you build, manage and protect your wealth now, and in the future.
We provide a real client-focussed ongoing service that helps clients, whether you are a private individual, trustee or small business owner, to get what they want; ideally for helping them identify, achieve and maintain their desired lifestyle without ever running out of money. That is what we, as financial planners do best.



Working to the highest ethical and professional standards, we provide the independent financial advice you need to you make informed decisions about your income options at every stage of your financial life


To date just over 200 firms throughout the entire UK have achieved Chartered Financial Planners status. It is widely accepted across the financial planning community that this award is very much reserved for a select few firms

Sharon Sutton - APFS Chartered Financial Planner
Managing Director of the company, Sharon is the Isle of Man's first and only Chartered Financial Planner and one of only 1,500 to hold this title in the British Isles, which is awarded by the Chartered Insurance Institute to individuals who meet the highest standards of expertise and professionalism. Sharon specialises in the provision of investment advice, multi-jurisdictional financial planning and financial planning for small and medium-sized businesses.



Sharon is a member of the Personal Finance Society and Council Member of the Isle of Man Insurance & Financial Services Institute; she is committed to her own on-going personal development and that of her team. Her main goals outside ThorntonFS are to drive forward professionalism within the local IFA community and encourage implementation of the RDR and TCF initiatives currently going on in the UK. Sharon is a committee member of the newly formed FPIBA (see www.fpiba.com)