More than 250 Financial Planners and wealth managers have backed a campaign group called Financial Planners United set up to help smaller firms fight soaring regulatory costs.

The Personal Finance Society has reported that 3,000 members have downloaded a template to be used to write to MPs to urge government intervention over rising Professional Indemnity and FSCS costs.

The Chartered Insurance Institute to run a series of diversity and inclusion events with local institutes to celebrate and explain the benefits of diversity and inclusion for the profession during the ‘DiveIn’ festival in September.

Growing financial adviser group LEBC is launching a graduate programme which will lead to Chartered Financial Planner status in a bid to tackle a shortage of young recruits.