Platforms

Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Peter Hargreaves has donated close to £1m in company shares to charity.

Next year will bring the realisation that super clean is not so super, predicts Fidelity FundsNetwork, with rebates trumping super clean share classes.

Zurich UK Life has appointed Richard Romer-Lee's new consultancy firm to help with the launch of a new investment fund proposition for its intermediary platform in the coming year.

Skandia head of wealth planning Colin Jelley has left the firm after ten months in the role.

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has secured best price fund deals from the vast majority of its major fund partners after groups agreed to sign up to its recently-unveiled Access programme.

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A number of asset managers stand to double their market share if they are prepared to be aggressive on super clean pricing, according to research from Barclays.

Skandia's director of investments James Millard is to exit the business at the end of the year after the group opted to hand the running of its managed portfolio service to Old Mutual Global Investors.

AJ Bell has introduced a capped annual charge on its new-look D2C platform Youinvest as it unveils its pricing strategy for 2014.

The increasingly rapid move towards restricted architecture and a focus on cost above all else across the financial services industry could spark the next mis-selling scandal, Fidelity's Ed Dymott has said.