Funds

How ITs can fill a void in the pensions landscape

WisdomTree has brought two of its flagship currency-hedged ETFs to Europe to offer investors the option to hedge exposure to the euro and the yen.

Hargreaves Lansdown unveiled plans for a new non-advised service in its latest trading update, but its shares fell as it revealed rising costs including an FSCS levy of £4.6m

Why the old life company service model just doesn't work

A surge in demand post-RDR makes for positive headlines, but it also masks a bigger problem

Fees charged by discretionary fund managers to platforms are set to face the same downwards pressure being seen elsewhere in the industry, Nucleus business development director Barry Neilson has predicted.

The key issues impacting investors

A "combination of politics and pensions" contributed to slower sales across platforms in the first three months of the year, with the year-on-year (YOY) asset growth rate also receding, according to research.

Brewin Dolphin's sale of execution-only platform Stocktrade to Alliance Trust has been tipped to prompt a further turnaround in investors' view of the wealth manager.

Exchange-traded product provider WisdomTree has launched the sterling hedged WisdomTree Germany Equity UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange.