Nearly 7,000 UK financial advisers have reached Chartered Financial Planner status 15 years after the designation was launched, according to the latest figures from the PFS.

All too often, our profession deserves its reputation as the home of grey men wearing navy blue suits. Go along to more or less any conference, seminar or professional body event and you are confronted by a lack of diversity along with the absence of anything especially exciting or progressive.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable has warned Financial Planners to brace for "serious disruption" economically from the Brexit negotiations.

PFS chief executive Keith Richards has described the first ever PFS Festival of Financial Planning a "fantastic" success with news that total attendance for the two day event reached nearly 3,300.