Parmenion, the DFM and platform technology provider, has cut its initial fee and initial dealing charges to zero for all new business and top ups, it announced today.

Bristol-based Financial Planning firm Brunel Capital Partners, run by Chartered Financial Planner and MD Damien Rylettt, has opened its self-built DFM firm IronBright to other Financial Planning firms.

Fund research company RSMR has added propositions from Brewin Dolphin and Quilter Cheviot to its list of rated Discretionary Fund Managers (DFMs).

DFM Whitechurch Securities has hired a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments.