Our regular round-up of the latest insights on investment distribution

The FCA announced this week that it will conduct an Investment Platform Market study to look at “how D2C and intermediated investment platforms compete to win new and retain existing customers.” Importantly, the FCA has the authority to look at competition, which...

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.

According to Fidelity FundsNetwork head Pat Shea, the UK platform market has too many sub-scale players. Hear the rest of the story in Money...

April. Spring has sprung and with it brings the start of the new tax year. Workers get a £500 rise in their tax-free Personal Allowance and ISA savers see their annual allowance rise to £20,000. But bubbling under the surface is a product that has been...

Natwest has just announced 128 branch closures because of the ‘dramatic shift’ from face-to-face to online and mobile transactions. Nothing new there... 32 branches went last year because of ‘increased use of digital banking’ and 300 back in 1996, as it rolled out...

The idea of patient long term capital is attractive – especially in the context of investment trusts. Higher long term returns could come from the higher risks involved in holding investment trusts. What’s more I think that it could have legs in the adviser...