Private equity-owned Harwood Wealth Management has acquired two adviser firms and has rebranded as Argentis Group.

Bristol-based Clifton Asset Management is to acquire Aberdeen-based wealth manager and IFA Burnett & Reid Wealth Management and is planning further deals.

Private equity firm FPE Capital is to pump an undisclosed sum into Financial Planning fintech Dynamic Planner to help accelerate growth.

The fast growing Financial Planning firm Progeny Group has acquired Edinburgh-based Chartered Financial Planners Balmoral Asset Management to expand its presence in Scotland.

Expanding Nottingham-based Financial Planning firm Wren Sterling Group has acquired the trade and assets of Oxford-based Critchleys Financial Planning LLP from accountancy firm Critchleys LLP for an undisclosed sum.

Financial research and investment management company Morningstar is to rename Praemium as the Morningstar Wealth Platform after its £35m acquisition of the formerly Australian-owned platform.

Financial services-focused US private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP) is to acquire a majority stake in London-based wealth manager London & Capital. 

Financial Planner and accountancy firm Old Mill has acquired Ilminster-based financial outsourcing firm Brook Financial as part of a long term drive to expand in the South West.

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Brooks Macdonald is to acquire Nuneaton-based Integrity Wealth (Holdings) Limited - which has £250m in funds under management - for an undisclosed sum.

Emyr Blease, managing director of Wimbledon-based Chartered Financial Planning firm Holborn Financial, explains to Financial Planning Today in this Guest Column why he decided to sell his firm and why looking after his clients was paramount.