HFMC Wealth completes acquisition

HFMC Wealth completes acquisition HFMC Wealth has acquired R&S Financial Planning Ltd in a deal which further strengthens its London office. The transaction, which completed on 16th January 2023, sees all R&S Financial Planning client-facing staff retained. Vince Lane continues to oversee his key client relationships. The team will be strengthened further with Darren Berry joining the team on a full time basis.  Darren has previously looked after private clients at UBS and holds the Chartered Financial Planner status, is a designated Trust and Estate Practitioner through STEP and is a Fellow of the Personal Finance Society. R&S advises over 100 families, many of whom have been clients for decades and, in some cases, over multiple generations. The deal will add to HFMC Wealth around £630,000 of annual recurring revenue and assets under advice of £145m. The average client size is £1.2m, which marries perfectly with HFMC Wealth’s High Net Worth proposition. Commenting on the transaction, R&S owner and director, Vince Lane said: “We have felt for some time that joining a larger firm would be the best way to deliver the wider range of services we wish to provide our clients, whilst also providing a controlled succession to my [...]