The lack of Professional Indemnity insurance availability for IFA firms is ‘the biggest threat to adviser businesses’ in 2020, the chairman of Beaufort Group Simon Goldthorpe has warned.

The launch of a new Financial Planning firm, Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW), is exciting news and I believe new entrants to the financial advice market must be welcomed not feared, writes Simon Goldthorpe of Beaufort Group.

National IFA partnership Beaufort Financial has joined up with Wills and Legal Services to form a new appointed representative firm.

Beaufort Financial, the national partnership of independent financial advisers, has added two are Midlands firms, in Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire.