Focus Financial Partners, a leading US wealth advisory firm, has acquired Cheshire-based Watterson Financial Planning.

Only one in three financial advisers use cashflow modelling tools with all clients and less than half use it at lifetime 'milestone' moments.

Lindsay Hudson is to join Aegon Asset Management as head of inclusion and diversity from Invesco where she has worked since 2015.

Divorce was the second biggest cause of a derailment of retirement plans according to the Great British Retirement Survey, but financial advice is often not taken during divorce proceedings.

UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced new lockdown grants to retail, hospitality and leisure businesses and made a further £594m available for Local Authorities to support other businesses not eligible for the grants but affected by the restrictions.

Wealth manager Mattioli Woods has appointed David Kiddie, Edward Knapp and Martin Reason as independent non-executive directors.

Markets are pricing in the Bank of England keeping the base rate low, or even cutting it further, throughout 2021 despite the roll out of Coronavirus vaccines and the emergence of a Brexit deal, according to AJ Bell.

Mortgage and protection advice firm Just Mortgages has today launched a new wealth division named Just Wealth.

Integrafin, parent company of platform Transact, has released a Stock Exchange announcement this afternoon stating that it now has “no intention” of making an offer for rival Nucleus Financial Group.

Aviva has appointed Mark Versey as the new chief executive of its Aviva Investors division.