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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 was highly commended for Content Excellence at the Incisive Media Drury Lane Awards in both 2024 and 2025.

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Articles by Isabel Baxter

FE Fundinfo integrates portfolio analysis and cashflow planning solutions

Companies

FE Fundinfo integrates portfolio analysis and cashflow planning solutions

FE Analytics and FE CashCalc integrated on Nexus platform

clock 07 July 2025 • 1 min read
Aberdeen Adviser launches tool to streamline platform transitions for advisers

Platforms

Aberdeen Adviser launches tool to streamline platform transitions for advisers

'We are in a race around operational efficiency'

clock 07 July 2025 • 2 min read
Crypto fraudster duo sentenced to a combined 12 years imprisonment

People

Crypto fraudster duo sentenced to a combined 12 years imprisonment

Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga face imprisonment for £1.5m fraud

clock 07 July 2025 • 1 min read
'We didn't have the dedicated capability in place': Sesame's adviser recruitment boost

Companies

'We didn't have the dedicated capability in place': Sesame's adviser recruitment boost

Team formed to push network’s growth ‘already making a difference’

clock 03 July 2025 • 3 min read
The Penny Group snaps up Kettering-based IFA

Companies

The Penny Group snaps up Kettering-based IFA

Isham Financial Centre is headed up by David Sawiak

clock 03 July 2025 • 1 min read
Majority of advisers put platform and provider choice down to data provision

Platforms

Majority of advisers put platform and provider choice down to data provision

‘Advice firms need good data for regulatory compliance’

clock 03 July 2025 • 2 min read
Schroders head of UK Middleton's private markets 'democratisation' plan

People

Schroders head of UK Middleton's private markets 'democratisation' plan

Bringing more access to advisers and retail investors

clock 02 July 2025 • 2 min read
Supreme Court hands down landmark ruling in banker's divorce tax planning case

Tax Planning

Supreme Court hands down landmark ruling in banker's divorce tax planning case

‘Significant implications for treatment of non-matrimonial assets on divorce’

clock 02 July 2025 • 6 min read
ValidPath launches client buyout programme for retiring IFAs

Companies

ValidPath launches client buyout programme for retiring IFAs

Designed to help with a ‘comprehensive succession and acquisition solution’

clock 02 July 2025 • 4 min read
How one advice firm's consultancy fee charge 'adds value'

Companies

How one advice firm's consultancy fee charge 'adds value'

‘We felt that it isn’t right for us to only be rewarded by making a transactional sale’

clock 01 July 2025 • 4 min read