Openwork has launched its Academy Fast Track programme to encourage people with no significant financial services experience to enter the financial advice profession as a second career.

Openwork, one of the UK’s largest financial advice networks with more than 3,500 advisers, has appointed Ian Buchanan and Andy Smart as non-executive board directors.

Foster Denovo co-founder Keith Carby is to resign from the company he helped set up in 2005 to make way for fresh blood.

Openwork, the advisory network with 3,500 advisers, has unveiled a programme which will support firms to ‘upskill’ mortgage advisers to become qualified wealth advisers, offering holistic Financial Planning.