A Sussex businessman has been ordered to pay £15,000 for withholding information legally required in an investigation by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) which had continued since 2020. 

Sussex and South East accountancy firm and Financial Planners Carpenter Box has merged its south coast operations with Jones Avens accountants.

Sussex-based private equity firm Cow Corner Investing has merged two Brighton-based financial advice firms it has acquired into one business with £1.5bn of assets.

Expanding South Coast-based wealth manager and adviser firm Skerritts Group has acquired Horsham-based Financial Planner Mercier Allen & Associates.