UK financial planner takes over IFA firm
It has more than 10 deals in the pipeline which will be completed in ‘the next few months’ Perspective Financial Group has acquired Darlington-based financial planning firm Atkinson White Partnership (AWP). The deal adds £130m ($178m, €146m) in assets under management (AUM) from around 500 wealth management clients. AWP founders Simon Atkinson and Neil White are to retire from the business in a few months, but will remain as consultants until that time. This marks Perspective’s 39 th acquisition since it was founded in 2008 and brings the firm’s AUM to £3.2bn. Ian Wilkinson, chief...