Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland-based wealth manager Davy Private Clients UK has acquired financial adviser and investment firm Graham Corry Cheevers, adding £230m of assets to its books.

Davy Private Clients, the Northern Ireland-based wealth management and financial planning division of J&E Davy (Davy), has agreed to acquire Square Seven Financial Planning, part of a two year acquisition spree.

A husband and wife team from Co Tyrone have been jailed for a total of six years and ordered to pay £4m in unpaid taxes after admitting a £4.6m tax fraud.

Scottish Life, the pensions arm of the Royal London Group has rolled out an improved support structure for IFAs based in Northern Island.

Trevor James, area manager at Progressive Building Society, has taken over as chairman of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) Northern Ireland.

The average house price in the UK has passed the £200,000 level, according to the Department for Communities & Local Government.

Towns in Northern Ireland have seen the biggest house price rises during the last 12 months, the latest research from the Halifax reveals.

Residential property in London is now worth over 50% more than the average UK house price, and the value of UK property has continued to climb by another 2.1% in the last quarter, according to Nationwide's latest house price index.

Premier Mortgage Service is to hold a roadshow in Belfast on 19 October along with 16 lenders operating in the Northern Ireland mortgage market.

ORGANISED CRIMINALS with links to Northern Ireland's paramilitary groups are increasingly using third parties, including advisers, in an effort to hide the origin of their money, according to senior financial investigators, reports The Financial Times....