Fast growing wealth manager and Financial Planning group Succession has acquired four financial advisory firms as it heads toward 50 takeovers.

National Financial Planning and wealth management firm Succession Group has promoted James Stevenson to the position of  group chief executive.

The acquisitive Financial Planning business Succession Group has added £400m in funds under management with two acquisitions - Scottish Chartered Financial Planners AFS and Manchester and Stratford-upon-Avon based Inspire Wealth Management.

A young Financial Planning trainee has said he is thrilled to have won a £2,000 prize to fund a trip to the annual conference of South Africa's Financial Planning Institute in Cape Town.