by Jeremy Fawcett | 07 March 2025 | UK D2C
The UK D2C market was upbeat over 2024 in terms of assets, flows and customer acquisition. A longer perspective reveals significant shifts in the make-up of this distribution channel. Self-directed investors have become more price sensitive. This has been led by those...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 09 August 2024 | UK D2C
Will HL maintain its status as the leading online investment service following its acquisition by a private equity consortium? It has a 29% share of the UK D2C market, considering the full range of D2C services, as covered in our recent UK D2C: Market Update. This is...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 16 February 2024 | UK D2C
As the UK D2C market approaches £500bn, the incumbents are still dominant but the shape of the market is changing. Direct platforms still manage the lion’s share of assets, according to Platforum’s UK D2C: Market Overview, published this week. Hargreaves Lansdown...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 20 October 2023 | UK D2C
Providing good online experience for investors is challenging. Managing ongoing relationships is more complicated than providing transactional services. Our annual investor experience research finds some areas of improvement and picks out the Platforum Online...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 28 April 2023 | UK D2C, UK Fund Distribution
Select lists are still an important lever of D2C investment distribution even if they are not pushed as hard as they used to be by the direct platforms that compile them. This is according to our latest research – UK D2C: Investment Distribution – published this week....
