Funds

Navigating 'known unknowns'

The number of platforms targeting advisory firms is likely to halve after 2017, according to Standard Life's David Tiller.

Pensions fit?

Rathbones' multi-asset head David Coombs has said the UK's largest investment trusts must reconsider their branding and investment strategies if they are to attract more interest from fund buyers.

The 400-day problem, solved

BlackRock has cut fees on its FTSE 100 ETF to just 0.07% as the price war among passive product providers continues.

Platform inflows reached record highs in the fourth quarter of 2014 as upcoming pension freedoms and demand for income boosted inflows, according to Fundscape.

ETF provider iShares has temporarily cut fees on its ultra-short bond range in response to client demand for cash alternatives.

Retail fund management is "out of control" and should borrow ideas from the institutional sector to radically reorganise, Nucleus chief executive David Ferguson has said.

Fidelity UK Personal Investing head Mark Till has left the company after three years in the role, Investment Week can reveal.