A record 400 firms have signed up to the Treasury-backed Women in Finance Charter but 14 firms have left the scheme as progress slows.

Expanding Financial Planning firm Progeny has launched a Women in Professional Services Forum to build a community of female spokespeople and leaders within the firm.

Trade association PIMFA, which represents 1,000 investment managers and financial advisers welcomed over 100 delegates at their Women in Wealth Forum last week, in Central London.

Large-scale research carried out for PwC for today’s (8 March) International Women’s Day has found that 57% of women have never seen a financial adviser.