Nick Cann CFP, the ex-CEO of the Institute of Financial Planning, has spoken movingly of his long-term battle to recover from a devastating stroke.

The Financial Planning Standards Board, the international Certified Financial Planner standards body, is aiming to have 250,000 CFP holders by 2025 - an increase of 62,000 over the next five years.

The number of Certified Financial Planner professionals around the world at the end of 2019 was up 3.7% on a year earlier to a record 188,104.

Well known Financial Planner Andy Jervis CFP, one of the first people in the UK to achieve CFP status, has been appointed by the CISI as President of its East Midlands branch.