Financial Planning-focused wealth manager Succession has opened a new national HQ in Birmingham as it moves the centre of its operations from Plymouth to the Midlands.

Succession Group, the acquisitive Financial Planning and wealth management business, is launching a charity-focused Founders’ Day this week in memory of industry entrpreneur Simon Chamberlain, who set up the business and died suddenly at age 51 last year.

Succession, the wealth manager platform business, has reported turnover and operating profits up strongly this year.

An advisory business has promoted two managing directors in the wake of the death of its chief executive and founder Simon Chamberlain.