Hargreaves Lansdown is planning to launch a rebate-free charging model at the start of next year following the latest platform paper from the regulator.
Responding to the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) long-awaited final rules on platforms, Hargreaves said the business was preparing to launch its rebate-free model on the 1 January 2014, ahead of the April 2014 deadline. Danny Cox (pictured), head of advice at the platform giant, said: "We are working with fund groups to have this in place by January." The group intends to have a platform fee which is a percentage of clients' assets under management, but Cox said there would likely be some form of tiered charging structure so clients with higher amounts of assets paid a lower perc...
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