Lowes Financial Management

Professional Adviser is proud to announce the shortlists for the adviser categories for the Professional Adviser Awards 2012, which take place next month.

Lowes Financial Management has appointed ex-Investec senior equity derivates structurer Sham Yapa as business development manager.

At times like these, the common message to clients is not to panic. Is that what your peers are doing this time round, or are any big changes being made?

A Newcastle-based financial planner has taken out a series of newspaper advertisements in a bid to attract the "abandoned" clients of Bluefin advisers previously working out of the IFA's now-closed Newcastle office.

The fixed-term annuity market has seen real innovation lately with several new providers entering the market. Helen Morrissey takes a look at these new products and asks what role fixed-term annuities can play in a retirement planning strategy.

The man at the heart of a charitable fund which last year failed to attract sufficient investor interest said government plans to launch an ISA investing in schemes to help the poor are doomed to fail.

StructuredProductReview.com, the comparison site run by Lowes Financial Management, is to start issuing regular maturity value data on structured products with the aim of making the sector more transparent.

With so many platforms vying for your business in a saturated market, deciding which one to use can be fraught with difficulty.

Lowes Financial Management has launched a structured product iPhone application, enabling investors to research and compare details of the products on the move.

Lowes Financial Management has launched a structured product iPhone application, enabling investors on the move to research and compare details of the products.