Fast growing wealth manager and Financial Planner Perspective Financial Group has acquired Essex-based Primera Wealth Management, its 20th acquisition this year.

Expanding global specialist wealth manager Zedra is to acquire LJ Fiduciary and Alvarium Private Office (APO), a private client firm with offices in the Isle of Man, Geneva and the UK.

Wealth manager Canaccord Genuity is to acquire Glasgow-based £220m AUM Financial Planner Intelligent Capital.

North East-based national Financial Planning firm Fairstone has announced a deal to acquire £120m AUM Kings Lynn-based Chartered Financial Planning firm Allen Tomas & Co.

Expanding Chartered Financial Planner Progeny has acquired £600 AUM Scottish Chartered Financial Planner firm Carbon Financial Partners for an undisclosed sum.

Fast growing wealth manager Perspective Financial Group has acquired two financial advice firms to push its total of acquired firms to 75.

Newly-launched adviser firm MRW Group has acquired three financial advisory firms with the help of funding from OakNorth, a bank for entrepreneurs.

Growing wealth manager Titan Wealth has acquired North East IFA Prism Financial Advice, adding £630m in AUM to its books.

Financial advisory firm Dow Schofield Watts, which has a wealth planning division run by a Chartered Financial Planner, has expanded with the acquisition of a Lancashire-based HNW client tax specialist STS Europe.

Ludlow Wealth Management, a subsidiary of wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods, has acquired Blackpool-based Opus Wealth Management Limited in a deal potentially worth more than £1.4m.