How? Financial Review (Stockport) Limited
Reference number: 592053
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Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 13 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2010
- Accounts filed up to 30 April 2026
Responsible principal firm
Quilter Financial Services Limited Reference number: 440703 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- How? Financial Review (Stockport) Limited (FRN 592053) is an AR of Quilter Financial Services Limited (FRN 440703). When you use How? Financial Review (Stockport)'s services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from How? Financial Review (Stockport), complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Alexander House, Brook Farm, Swineyard Lane, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 0SD, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When howfinancialreview.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0161 477 3310 is
- Who else gives the postcode WA16 0SD
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- How? Financial Review Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Better Call Paul Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Quilter Financial Services Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 07181644 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 8 March 2010 (16 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Beyond Accounting York 2 Tower House, Askham Fields Lane, York, YO23 3NU, England
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Desmond Mcgowan | Director | Sep 1967 | 9 Sep 2013 | 5 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 5
- closed down
- 3
- still active
- 2
In the full report: all 5 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£11.8k
Up £11.5k from £281
Employees (average)
3
Same as 3
Owed within a year
£14.2k
+37% from £10.4k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2026
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 07181644. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
How? Financial Review (Stockport)’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Paul Desmond McGowan took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2013
9 September 2013
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
Companies House
2012
28 November 2012
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2010
8 March 2010
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 14 events
- All 14 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 14 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk