New wealth manager and Financial Planner Liberate Wealth has acquired Yorkshire-based Ebor Financial Planning.

EQ Investors, the boutique wealth manager and Chartered Financial Planning firm led by industry veteran John Spiers, has recruited Mark Howlett to join as an executive director with responsibility for the advice side of the business.

Broadstone, one of the UK’s largest firms of pension and investment advisers, has been bought by private equity firm Livingbridge for an undisclosed sum.