Tenet has completed its first practice buyout in Scotland, with the acquisition of Forth Financial Services Limited, based in Haddington, near Edinburgh.

The St James’s Place Academy has celebrated its 500th graduate successfully completing the firm’s in-house training programme.

Wealth management group Tilney, which manages more than £25bn of assets, is expanding its Financial Planning team in Cambridge with two new hires.

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