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 Andrew Hutchings | 29 April 2022 | UK D2C, UK Fund Distribution
Most D2C services provide guidance in some way, frequently in the form of select lists and investment solutions – either ready-made portfolios or funds. Guidance is growing in importance. This is partly because it helps first-time investors – at a time that interest...
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 Richard Bradley | 07 January 2022 | UK D2C
We’re finally seeing a welcome boost to the number of investors in the UK. We’ve been tracking the proportion of the UK population that save and invest for the last decade. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have been the catalyst for many people to finally open an...
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...
