Edale operates a flat structure to support the business and ensure the core focus is on the client goal.
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Lawrie Chandler
General
Lawrie Chandler is a qualified financial adviser and also a practitioner in the business advice unit. Lawrie founded Edale and has been with the business since 2014.Investment
Lawrie Chandler manages the investment unit and development of Edale. Lawrie has spent nearly two decades working on investment management in the UK and overseas. He has been involved with many transformation projects and building growth products for groups across the UK, South Africa and the Middle East. A strong technician on investments and with a flair for creative solutions he has helped many clients' achieve their objectives quickly and smoothly.Business advisory
Lawrie Chandler owns and leads Edale. He has worked in blue chip organisations and built his own business from a Companies House registration to now a directly regulated financial firm. Seeing peers wondering how to develop their businesses he set up an SME advisory service and within a year Edale supported six ERDF funded programmes sitting alongside a financial adviser business and now a creative design team too. Lawrie’s roles for various firms since graduation in 1999 have involved sales, distribution, product design and manufacturing. Lawrie holds a 2:1 Business Law Degree from the London Guildhall University and Copenhagen Business School. -
Adrian Durrant
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Adrian provides investment support to the investment unit and also a business adviser. Adrian has been with Edale since 2014.Investment
Adrian has spent over three decades in strategic, financial and engineering roles. He was a founding member of eHedge, a German based institutional hedge fund research and due diligence business. His fund research and due diligence for a FTSE life company identified fraudulent flags in a large hedge fund operation well before its demise. He has a strong knowledge on international finance from work in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and South Africa.Business advisory
Adrian Durrant is a qualified engineer with a decade in financial services and a decade in management consulting. After graduation he had ten years in Engineering. His work has involved coaching /training executives, teams and staff. He has been involved in governance and improvement assignments to improve operations, risk assessment and strategic evaluation. He has run business improvement programmes in Europe and America with KPMG Management Consulting. This large consultancy experience within Edale’s agile business brings unmatched innovation experience and change improvement capabilities.
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Philip Rose
Philip Rose is an Investment Adviser at Edale, based in Edinburgh. He started his career in financial services in 1999 and worked as a fund manager at Scottish Widows in Edinburgh for more than eight years, which included the management and oversight of the long-term savings of UK pension scheme members. He subsequently worked in the UAE for many years and has founded two regulated financial services firms (in the UK and UAE). Philip is both a Chartered Wealth Manager and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. In addition, he holds qualifications in pension trusteeship, mortgages and insurance, as well as responsible investing. At Edale, Philip helps provide financial guidance to recipients of the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme. He recognises that receiving a significant sum can be a lot to take in, so he takes the time to listen and explain options plainly, without jargon. -
Michael Hayes
Michael Hayes is a Chartered Financial Planner who has spent more than 25 years helping people navigate important financial decisions with confidence. Whether someone is approaching retirement, receiving an inheritance, selling a business or simply looking to make better sense of their finances, Michael's role is to bring clarity to what can often feel complicated and overwhelming. He enjoys solving complex financial planning challenges, but believes the complexity should remain behind the scenes. His focus is on listening carefully, explaining things in plain English and helping clients understand their choices so they can make informed decisions. Michael takes a holistic approach to financial planning, recognising that financial decisions rarely happen in isolation. By bringing together pensions, investments, taxation, estate planning and wider financial objectives, he helps clients build plans that support the life they want to live, both now and in the future.
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Kudzai Chifamba
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Kudzai is a graduate from South Bank University in Information Technology with a passion for programming and maths. Since graduating in 2021, he has spent time as a Full Stack Developer in solo and team-based technology development, including at Sykes Cottages. Coming into Edale, he has developed applications and automated tasks in Edale’s retail financial business, as well as developed standalone financial applications for Edale’s clients.
Committees
Topic specific Advisory Panels in the company bring together industry experts and practitioners to examine resources and make more informed business decisions. The independent Investment Advisory Panel (IAP) meets once a month to debate the issues that inform our investment outlook. The regular members are experienced professionals and complemented by other specialists, depending on the important issues of the day.
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Jason Kabel
Jason has more than 15 years of asset management experience focusing on Money Market and Fixed Income products. He was Head of Fixed Income at Bank of London and the Middle East plc from October 2008. Prior to BLME he was a Fund Manager of Money Markets at Foreign & Colonial, within the Credit team.