Lync Wealth Management snaps up two more firms

Friarsgate Financial Planning (Chester) and Richard Armitage Wealth Management South West both join the national and add more than £200m in assets under advice and 500 wealth clients. Lync launched in April this year when ASH bought Sheffield-based Sheafmoor Money Management and North Financial Management in Belfast. ASH said the national advice business complemented its existing networks, Sense and Lyncombe, by providing "succession planning options for advice firms within the group and across the wider marketplace". Friarsgate Financial Planning founder Darren Booth said: "The AS...