Fast expanding SIPP provider Curtis Banks is to see a major management change next year as deputy chief executive Will Self steps up as CEO while current CEO Rupert Curtis will step aside but remain in “an active role” as Founder and Senior Adviser.

Former Partnership CEO Steve Groves has been hired as chairman of the Key Retirement Group, an equity release and later life provider.

Former IFP chief executive Nick Cann, who suffered a major stroke in 2013, received two standing ovations at the annual CISI-IFP Financial Planning Conference today with a moving account of his battle to rebuild his life.