by Jeremy Fawcett | 17 February 2023 | UK D2C
The D2C market has been on a rollercoaster ride with the explosion of personal investing in the pandemic, followed by a decline in asset prices and deflated investor confidence. Potential headwinds are reflected by the flak that Hargreaves Lansdown took from city...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 25 November 2022 | UK D2C
The advice gap is on the mind of the new City Minister, according to his comments at yesterday’s TISA conference. This is welcome news to online investing services that say they can do more to help the over 16m UK adults who have investible assets of £10,000 but tend...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 08 July 2022 | UK D2C
Private capital forms much more of the UK economy than it used to, and there is a sense that private equity investors can target companies in their highest growth phase. How can self-directed investors get in on the act and is this an opportunity for D2C providers? We...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 04 February 2022 | UK D2C
A year ago, GameStop symbolised the ‘democratisation’ of investing. However, a recently published book suggests it was ‘The Revolution that Wasn’t’, with no power shift towards ordinary investors. In the UK, elevated share trading coincided with the arrival of a new...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 12 November 2021 | UK D2C
A flood of new investors over the last 18 months has allowed us to analyse how people get started and which services they gravitate towards. The media narrative suggests cryptocurrencies and hot stocks have sparked an investing frenzy among young people, but it’s...
