Punter Southall Aspire, the investment and workplace pensions business, has acquired JDP Financial Services, a firm of independent Chartered Financial Planners based in Bedford, for an undisclosed sum.

Punter Southall Aspire has completed its acquisition of Focus Oxford LLP, an Oxford-based Financial Planning firm, and has promised more deals to come.

Punter Southall Aspire, the investment and savings business, has made a ‘strategic investment’ in Lexikin Limited, a so-called ’digital executor’ business which helps clients store personal details of their life online.