The Personal Investment Management and Financial Advice Association (PIMFA), a trade body for investment managers and financial advisers, has appointed four new board members including Mark Duckworth, CEO of the Openwork adviser network.

Advice network Openwork is marking International Women’s Day by pledging to attract more women into the industry as financial advisers and in its executive management team.

Openwork, one of the UK’s biggest financial advisory networks, has appointed Carrier Morris from AXA to be its new chief people officer.

Adviser network Openwork has reported record profits and a sixth consecutive year of profit growth and added 400 new advisers.