Hargreaves Lansdown

Standard Life has confirmed it will offer 290 discounted ‘superclean' funds on its platform, at an average AMC of 53bps, following months of negotiations.

Henderson Global Investors has scrapped plans for the creation of preferential share classes in order to offer intermediaries a ‘level playing field.'

The chief executive of Hargreaves Lansdown has said the group is considering cutting charges later this year following a surge of activity across the platform sector.

Platforms have been labelled the biggest winners of the 2014 Budget, as the increase in the ISA allowance and a move to provide more flexibility for retirees gives the sector a boost.

Hargreaves Lansdown's chief executive Ian Gorham has said the reform of the rules around annuities in the 2014 Budget is long overdue, and could well spell the end for standard annuity products.

Hargreaves Lansdown's shares rose on news the government is set to increase the personal ISA allowance to £15,000, whilst life insurers including Legal & General suffered a brutal sell-off, after Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the latest Budget....

Adrian Lowcock, senior investment manager at Hargreaves Lansdown, has put forward six investment ideas for those yet to use their ISA allowance, as the 2013/14 tax year comes to a close.

Hargreaves Lansdown received over 600 individual deals on fund prices before it decided which funds would make it onto its new Wealth 150 + list, Investment Week can reveal.

Investec Asset Management's plans to launch preferentially priced share classes for key distributors have been thrown into doubt after the country's largest D2C platforms revealed no evidence of such deals.

Hargreaves Lansdown has confirmed a number of its new discounted fund deals will be subject to HMRC's rebate tax, with only 9 of the 27 funds on its Wealth 150 Plus list available via preferentially priced share classes.