A Lancashire Financial Planner has increased her clients to over 950 after a period of “outstanding growth.”

Major platform provider AJ Bell has appointed a new sales director who will work mainly on SIPP products.

Bosses of Schroders, Investec and BlackRock were among wealth management firms that met with the Government over Brexit negotiations with the EU.

The number of IFA firm takeovers and mergers will increase in the next two years, advisers say.