by Heather Hopkins and Miranda Seath | 18 April 2017 | Archive
Heather Hopkins and Miranda Seath discuss fund distribution in the UK, the importance of financial stability and firms to keep an eye on in this short 5 minute video. Watch it now.
by Miranda Seath | 03 March 2017 | Archive
Why don’t advisers recommend investment trusts to their clients? The gross sales data on platform sales suggest that flows into these closed ended vehicles have failed to motor since the RDR. For the forthcoming Platforum report UK Fund Distribution: Investment...
by Miranda Seath | 24 February 2017 | Archive
This quarter assets on adviser platforms grew by over 5%, beating the growth of the FTSE All share, which grew by 3.1% over the same period. Year-on-year growth for adviser platform assets went north of 20%, a whopping increase. Market performance is an important...
by Miranda Seath | 17 February 2017 | Archive
We were cheered to see that the Treasury has announced that from April 2017, consumers will be able to access up to £1,500 from their pension pot to spend on financial advice. Savers will be allowed to use the cash on up to three occasions in £500 chunks. Retirement...
by Miranda Seath | 25 November 2016 | Archive
Philip Hammond appeared to avoid throwing any deliberate hand grenades this Autumn Statement but reducing the Money Purchase Annual Allowance –the amount you can save into a pension once you have taken money out of it – may turn out to be more explosive than the...
