Fast-growing wealth manager and Financial Planner Perspective has has made two new acquisitions, adding £220m in AUM and boosting its total number of adviser firm takeovers so far this year to 17, with seven more to come in the next few months.

Wealth manager M&A in 2022 soared to £137bn in terms of assets under management acquired - a near 60% rise on 2021 (£87bn).

The FCA confirmed today that it will consult on better protection for investors when Special Purpose Acquisitions Companies (SPACs) are used as takeover vehicles.

It was good to get to the CISI 2019 Financial Planning Conference in Birmingham this week and meet some old faces - always one of the highlights of these events for me.