How do wealth manager fees stack up in the unbundled era?

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Analysts at Numis have compared charges from the likes of Barclays, Brewin, Coutts and Rathbones to investigate how industry fees stack up against platforms' newly-unveiled clean prices.

While price is far from the only consideration taken into account by investors, the unbundling of platform charges has focused attention on fee models at the start of 2014. Numis' research - which incorporates relevant figures charged at the start of 2014 - shows, unsurprisingly, there is still a significant difference between execution-only platform prices and advisory/discretionary managers' charges. With platform charges typically coming out at around 1.1% in the analysts' base case of a £120,000 investment spread across three accounts, this difference means platforms emerge as les...

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