You dont need to go with any of these so called professionals cos they an't. Do your own investments yourself, ideally split between property, stock and shares (tracker funds have low charges in general) & cash (easy access for emergency, fixed term deposits ....) depending on how much risk you are prepared to take.Over the years, I found that any managed investment I had (company pension funds) have done fairly poorly to high fee structure eating into the returns. Any of my self investment have done much better over the long term by comparison.
Good luck. It is less difficult. at the end of the day than what most people think, you ll be a genius if you get it right 51% of the time and most fund managers cant even do that.