II praised for sticking to its knitting as it outsources buy list research
‘Clearly it makes sense to take that process outside if it’s not a natural part of the business’
Platforms
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‘Disruption for advisers’: The outlook for platforms in 2022
From M&A to tech integration, investment platform professionals give their views on the year ahead
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Praemium sells UK and international arm to Morningstar for £35m
‘Praemium’s digital-first capabilities will allow us to reduce friction, lower costs, provide more choice, and improve efficiency for advisers’
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AJ Bell appoints CFO as assets hit a record £73bn
Full year results reveal work done to avoid repeat of November 2020 outage
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AJ Bell launches investing app at a third of the price of Hargreaves Lansdown
Dodl will offer new investors access to funds and shares for 0.15%
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D2C platforms hinder shareholder voting with laborious processes
More than 80% of investors want to vote their shares with many interested in ESG issues
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Fixed fees in the spotlight as Abrdn seeks to scupper II listing in £1.5bn bid
‘Any future changes to Interactive Investor’s pricing model would be a blow’
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Platform pricing ‘should not be a race to the bottom’
‘Platforms need to be profitable to be able to continually evolve their propositions’
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Platform industry enjoys ‘Olympic’ second quarter as net sales hit £17bn
Platforms with strong D2C offerings like Hargreaves Lansdown dominate, according to Fundscape data
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FCA warns platforms to bolster IT systems after swathe of outages on Covid vaccine rally
Technical glitches last November caused harm to consumers and ‘negatively affected market confidence’
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Blackrock partners with global platform to distribute private assets to wealth managers
Tie-up to simplify ‘operational and administrative complexities faced by wealth managers’
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How advisers can tap into the DIY investing boom
‘The variety of client types in the market means that there will never be a one-size-fits-all solution’