Wealth manager Walker Crips has hired a new investment director who used to work for Financial Planning firm Tilney.

A Certified Financial Planner has spoken of the harrowing experience of having to delay her cancer treatment to protect her unborn child.

The US financial giant MetLife is closing its UK wealth management arm to new business and says it will refocus its strategy to “drive the growth” of its Employee Benefits and Individual Protection businesses instead.

Standard Life is to add its international bond to the Elevate platform it recently purchased.