Recruitment firm BWD has launched a mergers and acquisitions service - BWD M&A - aimed at finance advice businesses.

Adviser support firm and Sense network owner Adviser Services Holdings Limited (ASHL) has acquired two Financial Planning firms through its growing national advice business, LYNC Wealth Management.

National IFA firm Chase de Vere is on the hunt for further acquisitions as former acquisitions helped push the firm to its best ever operating profit in 2021.

Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs is believed to be one of three bidders aiming to take a sizeable stake in adviser platform Nucleus, according to a report from Sky News today.