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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

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

Henderson Global Investors has scrapped plans for the creation of preferential share classes in order to offer intermediaries a "level playing field".

Standard Life has secured discounts from 12 external fund groups across 291 clean funds, equivalent to an average AMC discount of 13bps.

Fidelity Personal Investing has called for a ban on exit fees from all long term savings products in order to improve competition in the direct-to-consumer marketplace.

The chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown has said the group is considering cutting charges later this year following a surge of activity across the platform sector.

Pension switching and in-specie platform re-registration: a call to action from the lang cat

"Independence is a state of mind - you just need to keep an open mind and consider all the options", the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said as it summed up the findings of its latest post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) research.