Technology

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.

Mark Polson reviews Nucleus's social media experiment, Speakeasy

Financial services group True Potential (TP) has launched a network in a move it says completes its suite of offerings for advisers.

Stephen Lansdown has sold off another significant stake in Hargreaves Lansdown, the business he co-founded.