Hargreaves Lansdown

Wealth manager Hargreaves Lansdown has reported a new record for assets under administration despite an expected slowdown in investor activity and increased competition.

VCTs

ISA investors used ETFs to help boost their exposure to a range of commodities in the first quarter of the year, according to sales figures from Hargreaves Lansdown.

Markets around the world rallied sharply in the first quarter on hopes the eurozone debt crisis had reached a nadir, while oil shot up sharply amid uncertainties in the Middle East. A number of UK-domiciled funds stood out against their peers in Q1 this...

ON UK GROWTH

Royal London Asset Management's Martin Cholwill is backing Hargreaves Lansdown in the view worries over impact of RDR on the firm are overdone.

UK

Aberdeen Asset Management is to join the UK's blue chip index in the FTSE 100's quarterly reshuffle, with Hargreaves Lansdown narrowly avoiding demotion.

Marlborough's Giles Hargreave has reversed his notoriously bearish stance on equity markets for the first time since 2008, telling investors now is the time to be fully invested.

US markets slid into negative territory shortly after the open, while European indices fell further after a day in the red, ahead of a crucial vote on Greece.