Adrienne Rowles, AAMS ®
📞 540-233-2021 ✉️adrienne@kinnectadvisors.com
Adrienne Rowles specializes in advising successful individuals and their families in building, preserving, and transferring wealth. With over 28 years of experience, Adrienne has been helping individuals and families work toward their financial goals through personalized financial strategies. Offering personalized portfolios designed for your specific objectives, trust management, risk management, and legacy planning.
Investing and risk management are intertwined in the proper creation of a portfolio. By engaging with a professional advisor, the responsibilities of managing your own investments may become less burdensome. There are many ways to achieve the same goal; it starts with listening well and understanding your financial goals, then together determining which path may be most appropriate for you.
With more than 28 years of experience in the financial services industry, Adrienne previously served as president of Rowles Mortgage Services, Inc., which she founded in Boston in 1987. She began her career as a Financial Advisor with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in 1998 in West Palm Beach, FL. She cultivated her practice over the subsequent 18 years while in Palm Beach County. In addition, she served as an Industry Arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). As a Wealth Manager with Kinnect Advisors, Adrienne is able to provide wealth management services to her clients using Kinnect’s resources and tools. Adrienne is a graduate of Plymouth State College, NH, where she earned a B.A. in Psychology. She holds Series 65, Series 63, and Series 7 registrations.
An entrepreneur at heart, Adrienne has founded a number of non-profit organizations. Currently, she is the Founder and Director of Shiba Rescue of New England, founded in 2017, voluntarily managing surrendered Shiba Inu dogs and matching them with suitable adopters on most nights and weekends. She lives on a small farm in Warrenton, VA, with her mule, sheep, rabbits, and two Shiba Inus. In her spare time, she enjoys international travel.
This award was issued on 10/15/2025 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 01/15/2025 through 08/01/2025. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 3811 Washington D.C.-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 156 (4% of candidates) were named 2025 Five Star Wealth Managers. The following prior year statistics use this format: YEAR: # Considered, # Winners, % of candidates, Issued Date, Research Period. 2024: 3,408, 172, 5%, 10/16/24, 1/9/24 - 8/9/24; 2023: 2,627, 160, 6%, 10/17/23, 1/9/23 - 7/31/23; 2022: 2597, 159, 6%, 10/17/22, 1/10/22 - 8/26/22; 2021: 2091, 129, 6%, 10/17/21, 1/4/21 - 7/23/21; 2020: 2535, 115, 5%, 9/1/20, 1/27/20 - 8/21/20; 2019: 1956, 122, 6%, 10/1/19, 12/31/18 - 8/9/19; 2018: 1975, 100, 5%, 10/1/18, 2/1/18 - 8/24/18; 2017: 1417, 106, 13%, 10/1/17, 2/8/17 - 8/22/17; 2016: 1665, 208, 12%, 8/1/16, 3/2/16 - 8/30/16; 2015: 1837, 227, 12%, 9/1/15, 2/14/15 - 8/10/15; 2012: 449, 97, 22%, 10/4/11, 2/14/11 - 8/10/11. Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria - required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser (RIA) or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a RIA or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP's consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP's consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client's experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria - considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager's future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients' assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. Visit www.fivestarprofessional.com.