The highs and Lowes

Lowes Financial Management thinks education is what the UK’s independent financial advisers need most. Understanding structured products and the market has helped Lowes weather the fallout from precipice bonds in the late 1990s and the decade that followed, as well as the more recent crisis. Clare Dickinson reports

Ian Lowes, Lowes Financial Management

Ian Lowes, managing director of Lowes Financial Management, the Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based independent financial adviser, is passionate about putting an end to the occasional problems and misconceptions around structured products. “If we can stop the confusion in the market, hopefully we can stop the problems that come along every now and then. The more information there is out there, the more likely it is that advisers will use it and hopefully limit future problems,” he says.

The training