Hargreaves Lansdown abandons independent model
Hargreaves Lansdown is changing its financial advisory service to a restricted model and removing the minimum investment requirement.
Hargreaves Lansdown is changing its financial advisory service to a restricted model and removing the minimum investment requirement.
BlackRock has slashed the charges on some of the trackers in the BlackRock Collective Investment Funds range by more than half.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has rejected calls for a freeze in its fee hikes and has confirmed a 10.2% increase in 2015/16 for financial advisers.
Eliminating all potential conflicts of interest has been the lynchpin of why Arbuthnott Latham has grown as much as it has in the past ten years, says StJohn Gardner, head of investment management.
Advisers are underestimating all-inclusive costs to clients by as much as 1% per year a new survey by Defaqto suggests.
Advisers are underestimating all-inclusive costs to clients by as much as 1% per year a new survey by Defaqto suggests.
As price cuts across the financial sector bring fees ever closer to zero, so the focus shifts slowly to other ways of maintaining customer loyalty.
New research by the Pensions Institute demonstrates that even star fund managers struggle to beat the benchmark, when costs and fund size is included.
Advisory firms based in the UK are spending an estimated £460m each year on the direct and indirect cost of regulation, according to a recent study.
The IMA’s pounds and pence single fee plan has been formally ratified by the Financial Reporting Council.
Survey indicates wealth management clients may be growing less tolerant of fee levels
Hargreaves Lansdown has u-turned on its decision to apply a separate fee for investment trust holdings through its Vantage platform.