Old Mutual Wealth Private Client Advisers has acquired Dodd Murray, a Cumbria-based Financial Planning business for an undisclosed sum.

Old Mutual Wealth parent company Old Mutual Wealth plc has been praised for its efforts to improve ethnic diversity among its executives, having been ranked in the top 10 FTSE 100 companies measured by diversity and leadership.

The freedom to withdraw pension funds from 55 needs to be accompanied by flashing warning lights, a pensions firm director says, after the cut to the Money Purchase Annual Allowance was sealed.

Major platform provider AJ Bell has appointed a new sales director who will work mainly on SIPP products.