Expanding Worthing and Gatwick-based financial firm MHA Carpenter Box, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of two new partners.  

Blick Rothenberg, which alongside its accounting and tax services has a pensions planning and advisory arm, has acquired Hazlems Fenton. 

Succession Holdings, which has a number of Financial Planning subsidiaries, increased the turnover at its advice business by 71% last year.

Complaints upheld against advisers slumped in the first six months of the year, the latest data from the Financial Ombudsman Service has revealed.