Financial Planning-focused wealth manager Succession has opened a new national HQ in Birmingham as it moves the centre of its operations from Plymouth to the Midlands.

Financial adviser firm Chase de Vere has hired ex-Scottish Widows and Prudential manager Darren Fletcher to be senior manager in its Birmingham office.

Over the next 10 weeks more than 2,000 Financial Planners, Paraplanners and Wealth Managers will be attending the annual conferences of the two main professional bodies for planners, the Personal Finance Society and the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Pensions and employee benefit consultancy Quantum Advisory has appointed industry veteran and Financial Planning-qualified Julian Fox as a principal consultant, writes Cormac Sibley.