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Wednesday, 02 November 2022 08:38

PFS Festival - All the award winners

Leeds-based The Private Office has scooped the Personal Finance Society’s Chartered Financial Planning Firm of the Year.

The new President of the Personal Finance Society Caroline Stuart has urged members to help build the profession by spreading the word about careers in Financial Planning and Paraplanning.

Rapidly-expanding adviser and fund manager One Four Nine Group has bolstered its senior team with three senior appointments, including appointing a Chartered Financial Planner as chief operating officer.

The Financial Conduct Authority is prosecuting five people for involvement in an alleged £1.2m ‘binary options’ investment fraud between 2016 and 2020 and an attempted cover up in 2022.

The new FCA Consumer Duty will be much tougher than the previous Treating Customers Fairly regulatory principles, the FCA's director of consumers investment Therese Chambers told Financial Planners in a keynote speech at the two-day Festival of Financial Planning which got under way today.