Lloyds Banking Group is to acquire fast-growing retirement and wealth management company Embark Group.

Acquisitive Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairstone has acquired Dundee-based Findlay & Company Financial Services, its third acquisition this year.

Financial Planning and wealth management firm Tavistock has rebuffed an acquisition attempt by Jersey-based fund manager TEAM plc.

Simon Cogman-Hellier, CEO of the new Leicestershire-based IFA consolidator Radiant Financial Group launched last year, has spoken exclusively to Financial Planning Today about the firm’s acquisition pipeline, doing business during lockdown and how his psychology background has influenced his career.