Chartered Financial Planning firm John Lamb has launched a new wealth management business.

The parent company of Utmost Wealth Solutions - Life Company Consolidation Group - is to create a specialist wealth management firm as part of its acquisition of Generali PanEurope (GPE).

Brown Shipley, the wealth planner and investment manager, has hired Alan Mathewson as its new chief executive, subject to regulatory approval. He is due to start his new role by April.

Openwork, the advisory network with 3,500 advisers, has unveiled a programme which will support firms to ‘upskill’ mortgage advisers to become qualified wealth advisers, offering holistic Financial Planning.

Wealth management and Financial Planning firm EQ Investors has announced that its Positive Impact Portfolios are now available via Aviva’s Platform.

Wealth manager Walker Crips has hired a new investment director who used to work for Financial Planning firm Tilney.

A Certified Financial Planner has spoken of the harrowing experience of having to delay her cancer treatment to protect her unborn child.

The US financial giant MetLife is closing its UK wealth management arm to new business and says it will refocus its strategy to “drive the growth” of its Employee Benefits and Individual Protection businesses instead.

Standard Life is to add its international bond to the Elevate platform it recently purchased.

A former President of the Institute of Financial Planning has joined the board of a firm bidding to become the UK’s largest independent wealth management business.