Swedish wealth manager Söderberg & Partners has invested in four more IFA firms as it expands its financial advice presence in the UK.

Fast-growing wealth manager and Financial Planner Perspective has has made two new acquisitions, adding £220m in AUM and boosting its total number of adviser firm takeovers so far this year to 17, with seven more to come in the next few months.

Wren Sterling’s summer acquisitions have added £400m AUM to the firm after it took over Guildford-based IFA Messer & Matthews in July and in August acquired a majority stake in Cornwall-based The Stockdale Group.

Recruitment firm BWD has launched a mergers and acquisitions service - BWD M&A - aimed at finance advice businesses.