Tilney has snapped up another Financial Planner as its hiring spree continues.

A former senior manager at Zurich and Octopus has been hired by Chartered Financial Planning firm Fairstone Group.

Succession’s non-executive chairman Ray Pierce is to take over as executive chairman of the national Financial Planning business Succession Group immediately following the sudden death of 51-year-old founder and group CEO Simon Chamberlain last week.

Former Chancellor George Osborne is the shock successor as editor of the Evening Standard, it emerged this morning.