by Jeremy Fawcett and Cristina Puscas | 10 July 2020 | UK D2C
Interactive Investor finalised its takeover of The Share Centre this week – its third acquisition in three years and an indication of how M&A can rapidly accelerate a company’s growth. Winning new customers is the biggest challenge for most online investing...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 21 February 2020 | UK D2C
We will shortly reach our 10-year anniversary of covering the UK D2C market. Our latest UK D2C: Market Overview will come out next week and we have mixed feelings about progress in the sector. Online investing services are much better than they used to be: easier to...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 18 October 2019 | UK D2C, UK Fund Distribution
This week saw Link pull the plug on the Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF), leading to the investment manager’s exit from its other vehicles. WEIF investors don’t know how much of the 85p current valuation will be returned to them in 2020. The Patient Capital...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 07 October 2019 | Europe, UK D2C, UK Financial Advisers
Players across the asset management value chain who don’t pivot in response to today’s changes are risking obsolescence. Asset managers need to reconnect with end investors to understand how they want to consumer as well as what they want to consume. It’s about...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 30 August 2019 | UK Fund Distribution
The role of asset management looks to be changing as fund managers lose influence and experience falling profit margins. Asset management used to be the main bit of the value chain. If investment performance was good, it didn’t matter how far removed fund managers...
