Private equity firm CBPE Capital LLP is to make “a major investment” in national Financial Planner and wealth manager Perspective to speed up the growing firm’s expansion plans.

Global private equity group Carlyle is set to buy the three-year-old, acquisitive Financial Planning firm Harwood Wealth Management for £90.7m in a recommended cash deal.

Broadstone, one of the UK’s largest firms of pension and investment advisers, has been bought by private equity firm Livingbridge for an undisclosed sum.