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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

British Steel-linked advice firm goes under FSCS investigation

Companies

British Steel-linked advice firm goes under FSCS investigation

Inspirational Financial Management entered administration in November

clock 05 December 2023 • 1 min read
New market entrant Liberate Wealth makes second acquisition

Your profession

New market entrant Liberate Wealth makes second acquisition

Consolidator has acquired advice firm Stafford House Investments

clock 05 December 2023 • 2 min read
FSCS declares Birmingham-based advice firm in default

Companies

FSCS declares Birmingham-based advice firm in default

All claims are related to self-invested personal pensions advice

clock 04 December 2023 • 1 min read
CISI confirms Financial Planning Week for January 2024

Your profession

CISI confirms Financial Planning Week for January 2024

The 2024 UK Financial Planning Week will be from 22-28 January

clock 04 December 2023 • 2 min read
Finura acquires financial planning firm adding £90m in client assets

Companies

Finura acquires financial planning firm adding £90m in client assets

The firm has completed its acquisition of Tenacity Wealth Management

clock 01 December 2023 • 2 min read
FCA's 'polluter pays' regulation will add to DB transfer advice burden

Regulation

FCA's 'polluter pays' regulation will add to DB transfer advice burden

‘It will increase the regulatory and financial burden for advice firms’

clock 01 December 2023 • 2 min read
Majority of women not concerned about gender of their adviser

Your profession

Majority of women not concerned about gender of their adviser

Three-quarters of women are not influenced by their adviser’s gender

clock 30 November 2023 • 1 min read
Attracting and retaining talent is a key focus for the advice industry

Your profession

Attracting and retaining talent is a key focus for the advice industry

This is an issue that professionals across the advice sector are facing

clock 30 November 2023 • 2 min read
FCA's SDR regulation will 'make advisers sit up and listen'

Regulation

FCA's SDR regulation will 'make advisers sit up and listen'

‘There has to be a fundamental re-educating of the adviser community’

clock 30 November 2023 • 4 min read
Advisers struggle to measure full fair value requirements

Your Business

Advisers struggle to measure full fair value requirements

‘Demonstrating value is the thing that most businesses are struggling with’

clock 30 November 2023 • 1 min read