Advice network Openwork is marking International Women’s Day by pledging to attract more women into the industry as financial advisers and in its executive management team.

New figures from PIMFA, which represents around 1,000 UK wealth managers and financial advisers, showed the number of financial advice firms had fallen, but adviser numbers had increased.

With six months to go until Brexit, financial advisers have been surveyed on their key priorities for the future with most keen to see initiatives to help clients with pensions and social care costs at the top of the agenda.

Financial provider VitalityLife has launched a risk tool which it believe will help financial advisers discuss with clients the possibility of dying before retirement.