25 May Direct Matters Q121 press release
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Fundscape published the third issue of its quarterly Direct Matters report today. The Direct Matters...
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13 Aug Platforms return to form (dead cat bounce or road to recovery?) Q220 press release
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The FTSE All Share index is down 19% for the year to date, but the broader MSCI World rebounded and is down just 6%. The platform industry followed its cue, assets jumping by 14% this quarter and recovering most of the ground lost in Q1.
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13 Aug Investment platform assets jump in Q2
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The investment platform industry saw assets jump by 14% in the second quarter of 2020,...
14 May The calm before the storm – Q120 platform press release
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A high viral load sent stock markets around the world into shock in March. As a result, there was a collective contraction in platform assets of £78bn to £633bn, an 11% drop, although this was considerably better than the ~ 25% fall suffered by stock markets worldwide.
06 Sep Active funds underperform index trackers
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Active funds part of “best-buy” lists have underperformed equivalent passive funds...
03 Aug Why being a slave to best-buy lists is a bad idea
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Investors choosing active funds from leading platforms’ best-buy lists are doing no better than those...
13 May Poor start to 2019 for platforms
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THERE MAY BE PROBLEMS AHEAD…
By the end of March 2019, stock markets had recovered from the severe whipping they’d received in the last quarter of 2018. All major markets were home to stellar growth, with even the FTSE All Share rising by 8.3% despite Brexit concerns. The upturn pushed UK platform assets up 7.3% to £637bn, a vast improvement on Q418, but only £4bn higher than Q318’s closing balance of £633bn. Hargreaves Lansdown, D2C platform and the UK’s largest distributor, moved into pole position as the UK’s largest investment platform.
26 Mar Platform industry highlights 2017 MK2 press release
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For stock market results reasons, we published headline figures only for the PLATORM INDUSTRY in February 2018. Now that all platforms have released their results, we can reveal the leading platforms for 2017.
14 Aug Platforms go from strength to strength
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