News of the hotly-anticipated Royal Mail IPO was unsurprisingly popular among our readers this week, with ongoing pricing battles in the platform space also catching the eye.
Early reports that Royal Mail shares would trade at over £4 apiece when the company listed today (11 October) proved correct: at the time of writing, shares are trading over 30% higher than the offer price, at 440p each. Pricing of a different kind was again the theme of the week in the platform space, with M&G's Jonathan Willcocks voicing his doubts over preferentially-priced shares and Charles Stanley criticising Hargreaves Lansdown's transfer fees. Fidelity's ambitious expansion plans, the FCA's review of the execution-only market and the winners of this year's Aberdeen UK Platform...
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