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Platform unbundling will no doubt make investment trusts more accessible - but the jury is still out on whether it will make them more popular.

In today's Retail Conduct Risk Outlook the Financial Services Authority (FSA) identified the five products it feels pose the greatest mis-selling risk to consumers.

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Don't listen to the scaremongering - with stocks on the rise and an improved macro outlook, Europe offers rich pickings.

RISE OF THE INTELLIGENT ETF

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.

There are a number of reasons why the role of the adviser is as salient as ever. Bryce Sanders, president of Perceptive Business Solutions, explains.

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

Asset manager, J.P. Morgan, and exchange traded product provider, Source, have launched a Dublin-domiciled ETF that offers a cost efficient way for investors to capitalise on volatility.

Frank Potaczek of Close Brothers Asset Management looks at how passive investing has evolved and asks whether active index tracking is the future.