Peter Hargreaves, one of the co-founders of fund platform Hargreaves Lansdown, has sold off a £300m stake in the firm he launched with business partner Stephen Lansdown in 1981.

Fund manager Jupiter has renamed most of the Merian funds it has acquired to bring them in line with Jupiter’s fund range.

Expanding Financial Planning firm Progeny has acquired Leeds-based legal firm Watsons Law for an undisclosed sum. 

Standard Life Aberdeen may be ready to sell off its 175-year-old Standard Life brand to acquisitive life insurance group Phoenix Group.

Private equity-owned platform James Hay is to buy rival Nucleus Financial for £145m in an all-cash deal announced today.

Long-standing equity release provider Hodge is to exit the equity release and annuity markets by selling Hodge Life Assurance Company to a US firm.

Wealth manager and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods has bought London-based Financial Planner Montagu Limited in a deal worth up to £2.34m. 

Financial adviser Frenkel Topping has acquired two specialist clinical injury law firms for a total of £9m only a few months after revealing it was shifting its strategy away from acquiring adviser firms.

The London Stock Exchange Group has completed its £20bn acquisition of global data provider Refinitiv in an all-share deal.

North Wales-based Celtic Financial Planning has acquired the financial advisory arm of Widnes-based Halton Insurance Services.