New firm aims to improve connections between IFA buyers and sellers

Headed by Chartered planner

Sophie King
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West Yorkshire-based City & Capital Acquisitions has launched with the aim of creating a better connection between financial advice consolidators and the firms they look to buy.

Part of the City & Capital Group, the business has set out to "disrupt the traditional stereotypes" of how financial advisory acquisition brokers work. The group's new arm will be headed up by Victoria Hicks, a Chartered financial planner and the group's managing director. Hicks, who used to own a directly authorised IFA firm, said she would put her knowledge of both acquiring and being acquired to find "what is best for those involved above all else". The firm said it would offer financial advisers a consultative approach, as well as a more holistic one, to those looking to grow thei...

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