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Holly Mackay, the founder and MD of platform advice, research and events business The Platforum, is to take a sabbatical later this year, Investment Week can reveal.

Super clean and others; why fund groups took different approaches to passing on cheaper costs

The industry has yet to develop profitable simplified advice models because it is waiting on clearer guidance and direction from the regulator, Lighthouse group chief executive Malcolm Streatfield has said.

Independence: Have you got it right on platforms?

Nick Paler asks Hargreaves Lansdown chief executive Ian Gorham how the UK’s largest platform is navigating the new pricing environment

Aegon's decision to introduce price caps on the Retirement Choices wrap and the One Retirement SIPP is "potentially game changing", according to platform consultancy the lang cat.

Pricing caps on assets under management in the advised platform market will be industry standard within the next ten years, according to Aegon investment director Nick Dixon.

Aegon is to simplify the charging structures for the One Retirement SIPP and the Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC) wrap, benefiting clients with larger asset pots.

Cofunds' pre-tax profits for 2013 have fallen 16% after a rise in assets under administration was offset by L&G's attempt to reverse 'years of under-investment'.

AJ Bell is aiming to start converting existing fund holdings on the platform to the clean share class equivalents in the final quarter of the year.