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Guinness Asset Management has launched a new share class across its fund range, becoming the latest firm to gear up for RDR with the launch of a ‘clean fee' structure.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

Terry Smith, the City veteran and founder of low cost fund management group Fundsmith, has attacked platforms in the UK for adding to the overall cost of investing in funds.

Openwork is launching an online support system to help its advisers target and segment their client base.

James Hay and Fidelity have been ordered to pay Sir Peter Gershon more than £26,000 in total in compensation after they delayed his investment by several months due to a lost cheque.

Trust providers still have to battle a number of misconceptions before advisers can truly understand the benefits of closed-ended structures, writes Ed Morse, head of investment trust business development at F&C Investments.

Mark Loosmore of IRESS surveys the new attitude-to-risk (ATR) tools deployed in the wake of the FSA’s suitability guidance.

Nucleus is launching a white label, execution-only platform in Q3 which will help advisers build and market a direct wrap proposition for clients.

Platform sales on Axa Wealth's wrap proposition Elevate rose 75% in 2011 to £1.3bn, bringing total platform assets under administration to £3.5bn.

Cofunds head of commercial, Russell Lancaster, says clean share classes represent the ultimate in transparency.