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Adviser support group Tenet is holding three investment master classes to help advisers understand alternative products such as venture capital trusts (VCTs) and enterprise investment schemes (EIS).

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Lighthouse Financial Advice (LFA), the national arm of the Lighthouse Group, has set out plans to recruit some 180 advisers over the next 18 months.

Adviser consolidator and discretionary wealth manager AFH Financial has raised more than £1.6m via a share subscription which it says it will use to finance future acquisitions.

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National wealth management firm Attivo group has acquired Northwood-based IFA Anthony Etkind & Co, supporting its drive to double in size by 2017.

The industry has yet to develop profitable simplified advice models because it is waiting on clearer guidance and direction from the regulator, Lighthouse group chief executive Malcolm Streatfield has said.

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to leave its Canary Wharf base in favour of the redeveloped Olympic Park in Stratford, east London.

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