Wealth manager and Financial Planner Titan Wealth has acquired Workplace Advice Group, a provider of workplace pensions which manages £200m for 1,459 schemes.

Private equity-backed Quanta Group, the owner of the Wealthtime platform, is to acquire expanding Financial Planning firm Craven Street Wealth.

Hargreaves Lansdown’s chief financial officer Amy Stirling is to leave the business after the imminent takeover of the company goes through.

Troubled Financial Planning group Kingswood, which has expanded rapidly in the past five years, may be sold 100% to a private equity firm as it wrestles with a £91m debt mountain.

Expanding Chartered Financial Planner Lumin Wealth has acquired Berkshire-based £50m AUM Financial Planner Professional Financial Centre - PFC (Thames Valley).

The pace of merger and acquisition activity in the IFA market has increased with widespread consolidation under way, according to new research from respected pollsters Opinium.

Wealth manager and investment firm Titan Wealth has continued its acquisition trail with a deal to buy £535m AUM Jersey Financial Planning firm Advisa Wealth.

Expanding European life and pensions consolidator Chesnara has acquired Canada Life’s onshore bond arm.

Wealth manager and investment firm Titan Wealth has acquired Financial Planning rival Independent Wealth Planners (IWP).

National financial adviser firm Adviser Services Holdings Ltd (ASHL) has struck a deal to sell its LYNC Wealth Management arm to an affiliate of platform and wealth manager 7IM group.

The Financial Planning arm of national financial adviser One Four Nine Group has acquired Nottingham-based Castlegate Capital, a Chartered Financial Planning firm.

Investment platform and wealth manager 7IM has today struck a deal to acquire £2bn AUM MPS provider Rockhold Asset Management from national adviser firm ASHL.

Financial Planning-focused national adviser Foster Denovo has acquired East Midlands financial adviser firm 80Twenty.

Most of failed Sipp firm PSG SIPP Ltd (PSGS), has been sold to Alltrust Services Limited with one part, Unity SIPP, sold to London & Colonial.

Milton Keynes-based Financial Planning firm Boosst is transitioning to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), the so-called John Lewis model.

Titan Wealth has signed a deal to acquire £7.9bn AUM Channel Islands wealth manager Ravenscroft Investments Limited.

Rapidly expanding Swedish-owned wealth manager and Financial Planner Söderberg & Partners has invested in four IFA firms as it continues it strategy of taking stakes in UK adviser firms.

Fast growing Financial Planning group Perspective has completed four new acquisitions, pushing its total number of takeovers to 15 this year and adding £350m in assets under advice.

Close Brothers Group has sold its Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) wealth management arm to private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management for £200m.

International wealth manager, Financial Planner and professional services firm Azets has acquired Scottish Financial Planner and chartered accountancy firm Milne Craig in a major deal for the financial services sector north of the border.