Benchmark Capital, the owner of several financial and Financial Planning firms, has launched an academy to train the next generation of Chartered Financial Planners.

New Model Business Academy, the adviser academy run by SimplyBiz, has been criticised by education inspector Ofsted for a second year after it was found to be “making insufficient progress” from its previous inspection.

Schroders Personal Wealth has launched an adviser academy with the first 20 trainees starting this week.

Unividual’s Chartered Financial Planner training programme, Unicademy, received over 200 applications within a day of advertising its 2020 programme.