Bolton-based business advisory platform K3 Capital Group has launched a financial services division built around significant new investments in Pareto Financial Planning and Luna Investment Management.

Lauren McHenry of Manchester firm Pareto Financial Planning has achieved Chartered Financial Planner status after starting at the firm as a trainee Paraplanner in 2018.

Manchester-based Pareto Financial Planning has moved its HQ to the refurbished and iconic Old School House building in Spinningfields in the centre of the city and addd more staff.