HSBC is considering cutting its UK financial adviser numbers by up to two thirds as part of a move towards more digital products.

The latest FCA Retail Mediation Report for 2025 makes for interesting if conflicting reading. It shows the retail investment sector is mostly in robust health financially except there’s a problem - the number of advisers is declining, significantly.

Most successful Financial Planners that I’ve come across work mainly with an older client base - people in their fifties and sixties - and naturally so, as they are often the ones who have built up considerable wealth and assets over their lifetimes.

Wealth manager Canaccord Wealth has hired two experienced industry professionals to expand its adviser market team.

The Treasury is advertising a £100,000 role for a director of financial services based in London or Darlington.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Redmayne Bentley has recruited Vittoria Vaccaro from The Private Office to joins its growing Financial Planning team.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Evelyn Partners has added a new colleague in London to boost its near 300-strong national Financial Planning team.