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D2C Platforms attempting to undercut Hargreaves Lansdown via lower fees have not made "significant enough" reductions to lure clients away, analysts at Barclays have said.

Fight! Why advisers need to defend themselves in the market share battle

Advisers are being invited to vote in four categories at the upcoming Aberdeen UK Platform Awards - the Oscars of the platforms world (as its organiser, Clive Waller, describes it).

Standard Life has enhanced its wrap platform with the launch of a specialist investment hub aimed at users with discretionary permissions, as it taps into the growing number of adviser firms changing their business models.

Charles Stanley is to offer its model portfolio range via Standard Life's Wrap platform.

Royal London new life and pensions business was up 18% to £989m in the first quarter of the year, with group pensions benefitting significantly from auto-enrolment.

Cofunds is set to list Neil Woodford's equity income fund next month, but will not offer advisers access to the manager's discounted share class.

Rebate shenanigans and share class conversions aren't exactly making investors' final 2.8 billion years on Earth any easier, writes Mark Polson...

"Platform-enabled" advisory businesses are being invited to enter their firm for the 2014 Aberdeen UK Platform Awards.

Wrap platform Transact has acquired a 15% stake in adviser technology business Sprint Enterprise Technology, operator of adviser software system Fastrak.