21 Apr 2019 Company director? You could be at risk of fraud
Every three days a person complains to Companies House, the accounts register, that their personal details listed on its public website have been stolen by fraudsters....
April 2019
16 Apr 2019 The reasons behind platform’s new Netflix-style price model
On Monday, Interactive Investor announced a change to its charging structure to adopt Netflix-style pricing. It talked about having an “easy, modern price structure” just like the streaming service....
09 Apr 2019 Hargreaves and Share Centre take £1.5bn of JPMAM retail accounts
Hargreaves Lansdown and The Share Centre have become the beneficiaries of more than £1.5bn worth of retail accounts from JP Morgan Asset Management as fund giants continue to abandon...
08 Apr 2019 Interactive Investor adopts ‘Netflix’ fees as bear market looms
Interactive Investor has adopted a subscription-based fee as the end of the bull market nears. The D2C platform has touted its monthly-subscription as a Netflix-style fee...
04 Apr 2019 Platforms adding needless tools in ‘paranoid’ bid for survival
Experts claim platforms are “running scared” and creating investment research tools that advisers do not want out of “paranoia” in a bid for self-preservation at Money Marketing Interactive today....
02 Apr 2019 Nucleus profits jump in tough year for platforms
Wrap platform provider Nucleus adjusted profits before tax jumped 32.8% to £7.7m in its annual results, following a “tough year” for platforms. In its first set of results since listing on AIM last July...
02 Apr 2019 Shift away from ad valorem charges
Last week, the US retail investment giant Charles Schwab revealed it was launching a premium service, Schwab Intelligent Portfolios Premium, for clients with more than $25,000 with a $30 monthly...
01 Apr 2019 Slashed bonuses could hit Standard Life
Standard Life Aberdeen could face depressed morale on the shop floor as it reportedly slashes bonuses – a potential shock to the system for asset management staff who had become accustomed to...
27 Mar 2019 Warning for investors eyeing Nutmeg
The decades it has taken for Hargreaves Lansdown to become a FTSE 100 company is a warning sign for retail investors considering signing up for Nutmeg’s crowdfunding campaign...
21 Mar 2019 Experts reveal where they will invest
A fund manager, a wealth adviser, a research guru and a billionaire investor walk into a bar – and reveal where they will invest their Isas. Luckily we were lurking in a corner to overhear their top picks...
21 Mar 2019 Cofunds loses £8.5bn of assets in 2018
The assets on the Cofunds platform fell by £8.5bn in the 2018 calendar year, making it the platform with the biggest net losses in the period. Data compiled by Fundscape, showed almost all platforms lost assets...
19 Mar 2019 Was platform dominance broken in 2018?
2018 was a tough year for the adviser platform sector as a whole but, amid the general suffering, are net-flow figures suggesting a shift in the balance of power among the most popular players?...
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