Leeds-based adviser IFA Ltd, trading as Cowburn Milner & Company Limited (FRN 433928), has been declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

Wealth manager and Financial Planning firm Evelyn Partners has appointed two Financial Planners and an investment manager to its Leeds and Newcastle offices.

The FCA is set to boost staff numbers this year at its expanding Leeds office from 300 to 400 with the recruitment of 100 new employees.

More than two fifths (44%) of people in the UK have not written a will, nor are they currently in the process of doing so, according to new research.