Chartered Financial Planning firm Craven Street Wealth has appointed Caroline Hawkesley as its new managing director.

Net flows rose 6% for Aviva’s wealth division to £10.9bn in 2025, according to the firm’s annual results.

Acquisitive Swedish wealth manager Söderberg & Partners has taken substantial stakes in three more Financial Planning firms, pushing up its acquisitions so far this year to four.

One in four Britons (26%) do not know how - or where - they could access trustworthy financial advice if they needed it, according to new research from pollsters Opinium.

The Succession Alliance, a new taskforce created by the Consumer Duty Alliance, has been launched with a focus on improving exit outcomes across the Financial Planning profession.

Wealth manager and private bank J. Safra Sarasin Group, has acquired a majority stake in fintech bank and investment firm Saxo Bank for an undisclosed sum.

British engineering firm John Wood Group Plc has been fined £12,993,700 for publishing inaccurate information in its financial results.

The Government’s plans to cap salary sacrifice pension contributions are being rushed and risk damaging UK pension saving, pension campaigner Baroness Ros Altmann has warned.

Pension schemes trade body Pensions UK has urged the Government to withdraw the planned mandate power - allowing it to direct how pension schemes invest UK workers’ retirement savings - from its Pension Schemes Bill.

Lord Andrew Tyrie has been appointed as the new chairman of wealth management association PIMFA.