Women are more likely to vote for a political party that keeps the Triple Lock, cuts council tax or pledges to avoid increasing the state pension.

Expanding Financial Planner and wealth manager MKC Wealth has acquired London-based Financial Planning Firm Wealth for Women for an undisclosed sum.

Nineteen new financial firms have today joined the Treasury-backed Women in Finance Charter which now covers over 400 firms and 1 million employees.

Wealth management trade association PIMFA will hold its first Women’s Symposium over two days at a hotel near Heathrow in April.