Perspective Financial Group has completed its largest acquisition to date with a deal to buy Midlands-based £400m AUM Prosser Knowles Associates Ltd.

Financial Planning firm Finli Group has struck deals to acquire three advice firms as it notches up a total of 21 acquisitions so far this year.

Expanding national Financial Planning firm Wren Sterling has completed its planned acquisition of Evans Hart, an established £900m AUM South East financial adviser firm serving 2,450 clients in London and the South East.

Aberdeen Investments has struck a deal to take over the management of nine closed ended funds worth £1.5bn from long established US fund manager MFS.

London-based Chartered Financial Planner The Penny Group has acquired a  majority stake in £360m AUM Berkshire financial adviser Harridge Financial Services.

Gary Stran, a non-executive director at troubled wealth manager and Financial Planner WH Ireland, has quit the company today (5 November), two months ahead of his planned departure. The company’s chair Simon Moore may also depart early.

Nearly a third of financial advisers (30%) want to sell their firms, according to a survey.

Financial Planning-focused wealth manager Fairstone has boosted its footprint in East Anglia with the acquisition of a Norfolk-based Financial Planning firm.

Bolton-based business advisory platform K3 Capital Group has launched a financial services division built around significant new investments in Pareto Financial Planning and Luna Investment Management.

Expanding Financial Planner Shackleton has acquired South West-based Financial Planning and wealth management group Chetwood, adding £900m in AUM to its assets.