Expanding Financial Planner and wealth manager MKC Wealth has acquired London-based Financial Planning Firm Wealth for Women for an undisclosed sum.

Nineteen new financial firms have today joined the Treasury-backed Women in Finance Charter which now covers over 400 firms and 1 million employees.

Wealth management trade association PIMFA will hold its first Women’s Symposium over two days at a hotel near Heathrow in April.

Three in four women say the gender of their financial adviser is not important and they are willing to work with either male or female advisers, according to a new study.