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Are advisers better off leaving fund share class conversions to platforms (as some have suggested), or should they carry it out themselves?

Standard Life has agreed discounted ‘super clean' share class deals with seven fund groups - including Cazenove, Schroders and Threadneedle - with a further four set to be announced by the end of October.

Malcolm Streatfield, the chief executive of Lighthouse Group, said the company is seeing the "first green shoots of recovery" following a difficult two years as the business prepared for new rules brought about by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR)....

Cofunds has reinstated the platform charge on its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) after adding trading accounts to client funding options.

Standard Life has so far only managed to secure super clean share classes from 11 of the 15 fund groups it originally said it had agreed terms with, IFAonline's sister title Investment Week understands.

Cofunds chief executive Chris Last is to retire from the platform just six months after taking over the role.

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Restricted national advisory group Sandringham Financial Partners has selected Axa Wealth's Elevate platform and its multi-manager proposition Architas for its panel.

Fidelity FundsNetwork has assured advisers it has no plans to switch off trail commission before the 2016 deadline.