With Financial Planning Week under way two firms have revealed what they are doing to mark the event and boost the profile of Financial Planning.

PIMFA, the trade body formed by a merger of APFA and the Wealth Management Association, is to relaunch the popular annual Financial Adviser dinners organised by APFA.

Financial Planning and investment management group Tilney has hired two new Financial Planners to work at its Edinburgh office.

Adviser software provider Focus Solutions, a business owned by Standard Life but run as an independent operation, has joined a growing list of firms offering new cashflow modelling tools of the type used by many Financial Planners.