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Brooks Macdonald has launched five new risk-rated portfolios, doubling the number of strategies in its managed portfolio service (MPS).

Hargreaves Lansdown is planning a push into the asset management arena which could see it hire external fund teams and market its services to advisory businesses in future.

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Around half of wealth manager portfolios are failing to deliver positive alpha for clients, a new report has revealed.

Advisers are being exposed to accusations of negligent advice by the regulator because comparing charges for the most common outsourced investment options - multi-manager (MM) and discretionary fund managers (DFMs) - is "impossible", according to a new...

Morningstar has launched two income portfolios to be actively managed by its Morningstar OBSR Managed Portfolios team.

Discretionary fund managers are facing growing pressure to standardise managed portfolio fees as the FCA considers warning advisers against using any service where costs are not clear.

The smallest discretionary fund managers in the UK market could be vulnerable to a fresh wave of takeovers by larger rivals, new research has suggested.

Novia's profits rose sharply last year after the group received a boost from the sale of its Novia Investment Services arm to Aegon.