One of South Africa’s biggest independent financial advisers AlphaWealth has entered the UK Financial Planning market by acquiring a majority stake in UK Chartered Financial Planner Holborn Financial and plans to acquire more firms.

Industry platform veteran Bill Vasilieff, the founder and former chief executive of platform Novia Financial, has joined investment consultancy and fintech firm Multrees as a non-executive director.

Rapidly growing Financial Planning group Independent Wealth Planners (IWP) has acquired Hampshire Financial Planner Encompass Financial Management which has £167m under management.

Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods has pushed back a major deal to takeover £1.6bn AUM Ludlow Wealth Management.

The owner of a Bucks IFA firms says the increasing regulatory burden is one of the key reasons behind the £1.8m sale of his firm to Mattioli Woods.

Fund manager and wealth group M&G is to acquire the rapidly growing financial advisory group Sandringham Financial Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Kingswood Holdings has bought Admiral Wealth Management, a North Lincolnshire-based Chartered Financial Planning firm, for £4m. 

Data provider and fintech FE fundinfo has acquired FundConnect, a fund data and technology company based in Denmark, for an undisclosed sum.

Online investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown saw pre-tax profits dip by 3% over the past year but reported clients numbers surging by 233,000 to a record 1.645m.

Young Financial Planner Ravi Prema, who qualified as a Chartered Financial Planner at 23 years old, is being lined up to take over the family-run financial advice business Prema Financial Services.