Manchester adviser and firm founder Alan Torevell dies

Torevell (pictured) launched Torevell Mahon & Co, one of the first independent financial adviser firms in Manchester, in 1973.  Prior to that he was head of economics at Leeds Grammar School and an education consultant to the London Stock Exchange.  The firm grew steadily and in the late 1980s was taken over by a London-based merchant bank and renamed Torevell Mahon Granville (TMG). Torevell remained managing director of the firm. At the age of 60, he left TMG and launched a new company, Torevell Dewhurst, which was quickly renamed Dewhurst Torevell as part of a legal deal with Gra...