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Isabel Baxter

Isabel Baxter

Isabel Baxter is news editor at Professional Adviser, leading coverage of the UK financial advice, wealth management and retirement planning sectors. She is responsible for breaking news, industry analysis, features and interviews with leading figures across the adviser market. 

She joined Incisive Media in 2023 as a senior reporter, progressing to chief reporter before becoming news editor. Prior to Professional Adviser, she was a junior reporter at PAM Insight, covering the wealth management and private client sectors. 

Isabel has reported extensively on adviser succession, M&A activity, regulation, retirement planning, sustainable investing and other key developments shaping the advice profession.

She is part of the award-nominated Professional Adviser editorial team and won the Leading Platform Journalist award at the Vanguard UK Platform Awards 2026.

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Articles by Isabel Baxter

Quilter adds four ARs to its advice network

Companies

Quilter adds four ARs to its advice network

Appointments come after four other firms joined the network in June

clock 05 August 2024 • 2 min read
The Adviser Incubator: Meet graduate Rebecca Bonner

Your profession

The Adviser Incubator: Meet graduate Rebecca Bonner

An inside look at The Verve Foundation’s programme

clock 01 August 2024 • 4 min read
How one financial planner is tackling later life care advice

Retirement

How one financial planner is tackling later life care advice

‘It has become important to ensure that later life clients have a plan’

clock 01 August 2024 • 4 min read
The Verve Foundation opens latest adviser student cohort rounds

Companies

The Verve Foundation opens latest adviser student cohort rounds

‘I wanted to find a way to lower the barriers to entry we so often see’

clock 01 August 2024 • 3 min read
FCA imposes restrictions on wealth firm that charged 'excessive fees'

Regulation

FCA imposes restrictions on wealth firm that charged 'excessive fees'

London Stone Securities can no longer undertake any regulated activity

clock 01 August 2024 • 2 min read
'A transformative moment': Consumer Duty one year on

Consumer Duty

'A transformative moment': Consumer Duty one year on

Advisers reflect on the regulation as it reaches its first anniversary

clock 31 July 2024 • 7 min read
July 2024: Month in review with senior reporter Isabel Baxter

Your profession

July 2024: Month in review with senior reporter Isabel Baxter

Take a look at some of the news and feature highlights of the last month

clock 31 July 2024 • 3 min read
Advisers are struggling to service clients with lower assets

Your profession

Advisers are struggling to service clients with lower assets

IFAs say supporting smaller portfolios is increasingly challenging

clock 31 July 2024 • 3 min read
Hoxton Capital makes fourth IFA acquisition this year

Companies

Hoxton Capital makes fourth IFA acquisition this year

The international advice firm has bought Chequer Financial Services

clock 31 July 2024 • 1 min read
FSCS levy intake up by £39m during 2023/34

Companies

FSCS levy intake up by £39m during 2023/34

Lifeboat fund records total levy income of £473m

clock 31 July 2024 • 1 min read