The Financial Conduct Authority is to launch a recruitment drive and expects to add 200 new staff by the end of the first quarter.

Expanding Financial Planning group Independent Wealth Planners (IWP) has appointed two seasoned professionals to two newly-created senior roles as it plans further growth.

The number of Financial Planning firms planning to recruit in the next 12 months has nearly doubled from 32% last year to 57% this year, according to a new report.

The fall in life expectancy for men, revealed this week by ONS, was perhaps not such a big surprise given that more than 130,000 people have sadly lost their lives to Covid-19 over the past 18 months.