Funds

Cofunds, has appointed former FNZ UK chief executive Paul McMahon as strategy director.

Neil Woodford has been handed a mandate on Skandia's WealthSelect range, likely in the region of hundreds of millions of pounds, and the platform will be able to access the manager's 65bps share class.

D2C platforms attempting to undercut Hargreaves Lansdown via lower fees have not made "significant enough" reductions to lure clients away, analysts at Barclays have said.

The £2bn Templeton Emerging Markets investment trust (TEMIT) has proposed a fee cut as it prepares to mark 25 years of existence.

Standard Life has become the second platform to secure cheaper access to Neil Woodford's new fund, after the group negotiated access to the 0.65% AMC share class.

Discretionary fund managers are failing their customers by adopting opaque and expensive charging structures, according to a new report.

Parmenion has launched its own in-house pension account as a complement to its range of third-party SIPP wrappers.

Natixis Global Asset Management has hired three new UK sales managers in a bid to expand its presence in the advice and platform spaces.

Standard Life has enhanced its wrap platform with the launch of a specialist investment hub aimed at users with discretionary permissions, as it taps into the growing number of adviser firms changing their business models.

Kames Capital CEO Martin Davis talks to Anna Fedorova about Scottish independence, rebranding, and the group's plans to diversify away from the fixed income space.