Wrap/platforms

AXA Wealth has agreed preferential, non-rebated share classes on 153 funds from seven fund groups.

Novia's profits rose sharply last year after the group received a boost from the sale of its Novia Investment Services arm to Aegon.

A disgruntled IFA has vowed to shun Fidelity's Fundsnetwork platform after a client's re-registration got cancelled for the third time.

Neil Woodford has been handed a mandate on Skandia's WealthSelect range, likely in the region of hundreds of millions of pounds, with the platform also getting access to the manager's 65bps share class.

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.