7IM has merged its private client business with Amicus Wealth to create Amicus Wealth Management. 7IM said greater scale and enhanced capability would support its growth ambitions in the UK wealth management market. The merger follows 7IM’s acquisition of Amicus Wealth in December 2023. Dean Proctor, CEO of 7IM, said: “The launch of Amicus Wealth
Just about everything that improves mental health is free and available to all of us, apart from the right to therapy and medical treatment when required. It’s an utterly frustrating, unexciting, unsellable, and unlikely-to-go-viral message. It also isn’t judgmental, since none of us control our emotional state or the state of the world. Our likelihood
School counsellor Gill Harvey said the clinic “has just come along at the right time” after the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people’s mental health. “A lot of the young people that come through our clinic, I know them already from school, which is fantastic, and we do lots of referrals from school to the teen
By SARAH BROOKES – SENIOR REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 21:58, 28 February 2026 | Updated: 21:58, 28 February 2026 Health authorities are scrambling to contain a potential measles outbreak in Sydney after a new case with no known exposure links raised fears the virus is circulating undetected. NSW Health on Saturday confirmed a south‑west Sydney resident
At night, in 100 parks across the UK, small solar panelled lights illuminate wooden benches with these words carved into the wood: “Someone is always listening”. This week, half a dozen former football stars unveiled the 100th bench of this kind. They are a simple but powerful beacon of hope for people suffering from mental
It was a busy week for RIA aggregators. There were a few large moves, including $235 billion multi-family office Cresset bringing on Heather Pelant from Baker Street Advisors, where she had previously managed about $2 billion in client assets. Retirement, wealth and benefits firm OneDigital, in the meantime, announced two RIA acquisitions, bringing its total
When Repp Lambert started at Northwestern Mutual about 28 years ago, he focused on insurance and was only “dabbling a little bit in the investment world.” Fast forward to the start of this year, and he is the co-founder of a planning-centric, multi-generational registered investment advisor with $260 million in client assets custodied with Charles
Spanish health authorities are on high alert after detecting a rare case of suspected person-to-person transmission of swine flu in Catalonia. The case has been reported to the World Health Organization – raising the spectre of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, when a similar virus spread rapidly around the world. The new infection involves the
Lucy Foulkes explores the possibility that the rising numbers of young people receiving a diagnosis of mental illness or ADHD are subjects of overdiagnosis (Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?, 22 February). She posits that changes in terminology, increasing societal awareness and reductions in stigma are all factors in the increase in diagnoses. However, there
As one AI startup founder recently complained to me: “There’s a lot of slop in the air right now.” He meant it as a double entendre. While slop has come to refer primarily to low-quality, mass-produced digital content—specifically that which is generated by artificial intelligence (heck, the term is so pervasive that it was named