Leicestershire-based Financial Planner Handford Aitkenhead & Walker has become the latest business to achieve prestigious CISI Accredited Financial Planning Firm status.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment says two new firms, including one run by Financial Planning Today columnist Nicola Watts, have become CISI Accredited Firms, an elite level of membership.

The CISI revealed the latest form to join an elite list of 72 of its Accredited Firms is an Inverness-based Financial Planner.

An Accredited and Chartered Financial Planning firm has hired its first female adviser.