Tenet’s wholly-owned appointed rep Aspire Financial Management has acquired the client bank of Furness Financial Advisers, the financial advice business of Furness Building Society.

More than a quarter (27%) of financial advisers are working longer hours with some working more than two hours extra each day compared with a year ago. One in 25 work 70 hours or more each week, according to new research.

Close Brothers AM has acquired London-based Chartered Financial Planning firm Eos Wealth Management, which includes a number of footballers and media celebrities among its client base.

Investec Asset Management has opened its Investec Global Quality Equity Income Fund for UK-based clients from today.

An annual survey of pension disclosures made by FTSE100 companies has revealed that despite assets being at lower levels in comparison with last year higher discount rates saw the overall pension deficit reduce by more than £15 billion.

The Chartered Insurance Institute has unveiled an initiative to call on life, pensions and long term savings providers to back a framework of professional standards ‘underpinned by credible and robust measures.’

The CISI Liverpool, Chester and North Wales branch has a new president.

A Financial Planning firm’s founder has hit out at “grossly inflated claims and scaremongering” in the EU referendum debate but warned Financial Planners may be facing “a huge headache” if Britain votes to leave.

A Financial Planner will walk the equivalent of two-and-a-half marathons in a single day, inspired by a friend who suffers from blindness.

Financial Planning will be thrown into the national spotlight from today (Monday 6 June) as a seven-day consumer campaign begins.