by Andrew Ashwood | 17 April 2020 | UK D2C
Let me take you back in time to the start of 2015. Most of us had never even heard of a Coronavirus. Woodford had only recently broken free from Invesco and started off on his own. And nine platforms were offering investors fund recommendations via their select lists....
by Richard Bradley | 28 February 2020 | Europe, UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C
There has been a significant amount of M&A in the platform market of late, in the UK and Continental Europe, across D2C and intermediaries. Here we take a quick look at just a few of the deals we’ve seen over the past year, starting in the UK. FNZ gobbles up GBST...
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 Cristina Puscas | 31 January 2020 | UK D2C
Investec Click & Invest, Tiller Investments and most recently Moola have all shut their digital wealth manager operations in the last 12 months. These closures add to the existing concerns over the long-term sustainability of robo advisers’ business models....
by Ross Langbridge | 10 January 2020 | UK D2C
Most British adults do not invest. More specifically two fifths of the British population have only ever had cash savings and a further fifth have neither saved nor invested. This poses a good question to start the new year: why should the average saver open a stocks...
by Platforum Team | 13 December 2019 | ESG, Europe, UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C, UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution, UK Wealth Management
All across Europe – including UK – we are seeing changes to regulation, demographics and what investors want. Firms continue to evolve their business models and the industry slowly alters course. Our last newsletter of the year covers our predictions for 2020 and...
