ABOUT US

Robin Keyte

Robin Keyte has been a director of Towers of Taunton (Financial Services) Ltd since 1997, and joined the company after completing a PhD in chemistry. He is a fee-based Chartered Financial Planner and a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER CM, a founder member and current Chair of the Ethical Investment Association and Director of the UK Social Investment Forum.

In the Money Management Financial Planner of the Year Awards 2009, Robin won two awards, Cautious Investment Planner and Wealth Management Planner of the Year.

Outside of work, Robin has helped the UK Social Investment Forum campaign for greater awareness of ethical investment in the industry, and was involved in drafting the syllabus for new financial planning exams, the International Standard for Financial Planning (ISO 22222) and the national standard for generic financial advice. He has been described as one of the more forward looking independent financial advisers in the UK, and was involved in the FSA Business Ethics Forum and is a founding director of Fair Money Ltd, a working group established to bring about better business ethics in financial services.

Robin is also interested in direct social investment and has been researching new social and environmental investment mechanisms with Wessex Reinvestment Trust in a project jointly funded by the Esmee Fairbairn and Friends Provident Foundations.

To listen to Robin on Radio 4's Money Box Live, click here.

Debbie McMaster

Debbie started working with Robin in March 2005, having moved to the UK from Zimbabwe in 2004. After a while she began to get used to the climate and the different cultural environment, and Debbie and her family are now well settled and enjoying living in Taunton.

Debbie is responsible for dealing with the servicing requirements of Robin's clients, dealing with Robin's diary and holding the fort when Robin is out of the office.

Debbie enjoys running and cycling (despite our climate), reading and spending time with her family.

Duncan Shaun

Duncan has recently finished university gaining a 2.1 BA (Hons) in Business Studies from the University of Plymouth and is currently working towards qualification as a fee-based financial planner.

Duncan is a trainee at Towers of Taunton and hopes to be fully qualified and acting on behalf of his own clients in the next 18 months. While working to this achievement he contributes with both the administrative and financial planning aspects to the business.

Duncan is an active person and in his free time enjoys skateboarding and BMX riding. He enjoys living in Taunton which is where he grew up and where most of his family and friends live. Duncan shares Robin's views on ethical investment and is keen to make progress and learn more in this area, having already been to his first meeting of the Ethical Investment Association in London in March 2007.

Samantha Kay

Samantha is the newest addition to Robin's team at Towers of Taunton and has so far completed her first three financial planning exams in the Certificate in Financial Planning course. She is currently studying towards her fourth in the series and hopes to become Cert PFS qualified by the end of 2009.

Samantha recently graduated from the University of Sheffield with a 2.1 BA (Hons) in Archaeology, Prehistory and Medieval History and then from the University of Durham with an MA in Museum and Artefact Studies. She joined the team in July 2008 after moving back to England from Jersey.

Outside of work Samantha likes archaeology and visiting historical sites, as well as travelling and spending time in her new home with her family and cats.

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