Financial Advisor founder Chapman dies at 87

Colin Chapman

Financial Adviser founder Colin Chapman died this past weekend at the age of 87.

Simoney Kiriakou of Financial Advisor writes, “Chapman was the founder of Financial Adviser — the print title that became FT Adviser — back in 1987. He began work in February 1987, on the first edition of Financial Adviser, which came out in April.

“With just eight weeks to go before financial advisers were set to receive their first copy of the newspaper, there were no offices, hardly any staff, and no working telephones.

“Chapman used his contacts and his charisma to pull out the big guns — including former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — to get the phones working, so his journalists could do ‘less puffy press-released stuff.’

“That first-ever front page is hanging on the wall of our offices — a reminder of the bold new world of financial advice that sprouted up after the loosening up of financial regulation in 1986.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.