Rapidly-expanding adviser and fund manager One Four Nine Group has bolstered its senior team with three senior appointments, including appointing a Chartered Financial Planner as chief operating officer.

The cost-of-living crisis is nudging more younger people to take advice from professionally-qualified Financial Planners.

I started my career in financial advice some 35 years ago and have been running our firm with my wife Joanna for the last 20 years as a family business.  We still advise clients that we first met three decades ago. 

The latest FCA action on the BSPS scandal has highlighted the considerable risks for Financial Planners in advising on DB transfers.