Hargreaves Lansdown

Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Stephen Lansdown has sold 5.5m shares in the wealth manager, bringing his stake in the company down below 20%.

Fund managers are starting to buy back into UK-listed large-cap miners, seeing valuations as too good to refuse as wider sentiment on the sector hits a "decade low".

Peter Hargreaves, the co-founder of Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown, has seen his wealth rocket to £1.5bn in the last year after shares in the business rose to an all-time high.

Hargreaves Lansdown has topped the FTSE 100 index in early trading after reporting record levels of assets under administration in its quarterly results this morning.

Hargreaves Lansdown has achieved record levels of assets under administration after attracting £4.7bn of new money in the three months to April.

The FTSE Small Cap index has risen sharply for ten consecutive months, but is there still value in the UK small cap space or should investors take profits and look elsewhere?

Hargreaves Lansdown has thrown its weight behind an Investment Management Association (IMA) initiative urging groups to display total fund costs in a simpler, clearer manner.

VCTs are a tax efficient way for investors to support and benefit from growth in some of the UK's most dynamic, entrepreneurial and high growth companies.

The Financial Services Authority is planning to ban rebates on legacy business which are paid by fund groups to platforms from 2016, in a move which will shake up the platform industry and force providers to charge groups for additional services.

While markets are nearing - or passing through - nominal highs, in reality, UK shares would need to climb much higher just to meet inflation-adjusted pre-crisis highs of 2007.