A new study suggests that the traditional retirement client base many financial advisers rely on has shrunk by 25% over the past 10 years and may continue to decline.
Wealth manager Tilney Smith & Williamson has recruited a new Financial Planner from St James’s Place for its Chelmsford Tilney Financial Planning team.
The Financial Conduct Authority has won an interim restitution order of £676,000 against 5 of the 7 defendants accused of carrying on unauthorised deposit taking.
Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods has bought London-based Financial Planner Montagu Limited in a deal worth up to £2.34m.
Retirement solutions and platform provider Embark has launched an Investment Pathways tool to help non-advised customers move their pensions into income drawdown.
Expanding wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood has launched an ESG bond fund.
Simon Cogman-Hellier, CEO of the new Leicestershire-based IFA consolidator Radiant Financial Group launched last year, has spoken exclusively to Financial Planning Today about the firm’s acquisition pipeline, doing business during lockdown and how his psychology background has influenced his career.
Independent Wealth Planners has rebranded its Welsh regional hub Bartholomew Hawkins Asset Management as Maven Wealth Management and appointed Wes Nixon as new CEO.
Financial adviser Frenkel Topping has acquired two specialist clinical injury law firms for a total of £9m only a few months after revealing it was shifting its strategy away from acquiring adviser firms.
Wealth manager trade body PIMFA has called for radical reform of the advice sector to reach more consumers.