The not-for-profit Initiative for Financial Wellbeing (IFW) - set up by Financial Planning entrepreneur Chris Budd - has signed up Aegon as its first ‘founder partner’ member.

Senior executives from finance, consumer rights, research and technology have joined a new body designed to provide industry input to the government-backed financial guidance body MAPS.

Financial Planning firm founder and client wellbeing advocate Chris Budd and industry colleagues have launched the Institute of Financial Wellbeing.

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