The Initiative for Financial Wellbeing (IFW) is to return to an in-person, one-day annual conference for Financial Planners to be held in Bristol on 25 May.

Benchmark Capital, the owner of several financial and Financial Planning firms, has launched an academy to train the next generation of Chartered Financial Planners.

Wealth manager St James’s Place has boosted its partnership numbers with 155 newly-qualified financial advisers and 74 new Paraplanners - 229 in total. 

Rapidly expanding Financial Planning-focused advisory group Independent Wealth Partners (IWP) has acquired Southport-based Chartered Financial Planning firm Premier Wealth Management.