Quilter Cheviot has appointed Nick Holmes as managing director to support the firm’s ongoing growth strategy and drive a number of new initiatives.

Close Brothers Asset Management has appointed experienced Brooks Macdonald executive Alastair Wilson to the role of managing director for the firm’s high net worth investment management in Scotland.

The joint administrators of GPC SIPP have concluded the sale of the business to Hartley Pensions following a period of marketing.

Healthcare cash plan provider Medicash has transferred its £20m DB scheme, which has around 170 members, to TPT Retirement Solutions DB Master Trust.

The investment company industry’s assets have passed the £200bn milestone for the first time.

The Quilter Financial Adviser School has launched a new option called Fast Track, which will allow students looking to accelerate their studies to become a financial adviser quicker. 

XPS Pensions Group has appointed James Leeming as partner and head of investment at its Manchester office.

The FCA has given the green light to the private equity takeover of IFG Group, parent company to Financial Planner and wealth manager Saunderson House and SIPP and platform provider James Hay.

A Bath and London based Chartered Financial Planning firm has received hundreds of applications for its academy which trains the next generation of financial advisers.

Aegon has issued a warning over what it called the ‘little known’ money purchase annual allowance (MPAA), which stops people who have accessed their pension flexibly from contributing more than £4,000 into their money purchase or defined contribution pension without a tax penalty.