It’s hard to find a silver lining in current Covid cloud but one of them may be a boost to recruiting the next generation of Financial Planners.

Openwork, one of the biggest financial advice networks with 4,000 advisers in the UK, has urged insurance and banking workers facing redundancy to turn to the financial advice sector for job opportunities.

Outsourced Paraplanning firm the Timebank has launched a new support service that it believes will help Financial Planners and Paraplanners avoid the need to defer CPD due to the pandemic.

Unividual’s Chartered Financial Planner training programme, Unicademy, received over 200 applications within a day of advertising its 2020 programme.