A busy week of mergers and acquisitions - here's the gossip and detail

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Tom Ellis
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It has been a hectic old week on the M&A front where financial advisers are concerned, so this week on The Pro Adviser Podcast the team rounds up all the detail - and the gossip - in this action-packed area

In this week's episode, Tom Ellis and Hannah Godfrey discuss the multiple deals that Embark Group, Standard Life's advice arm 1825, platform provider GBST and many more have been involved in. The pair also talk about the confusing launch of a robo-adviser that promised a free, commission-based "financial adviser in everyone's pocket" - which you can read more about here. And, of course, they could not miss the chance to wax lyrical about the brilliant Women in Financial Advice awards that Professional Adviser held on Wednesday evening, the winners of which you can find here. You ca...

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