RDR

Tracker funds experienced their highest ever outflows during the first quarter of this year, according to the Investment Management Association.

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Last week saw major indices hit 18-month highs with many now comfortably sitting at pre-crash levels.

Did you watch the three chancellors last week? If not, you didn't miss much and if you did you might be wondering why you bothered.

Fidelity UK managing director Gary Shaughnessy has urged the industry to focus on the implementation phase of the RDR to ensure costs are kept down and advisers emerge better equipped to deal with the UK's savings gap.

A new and viable breed of funds is emerging: those that combine the benefits of active asset allocation with low-cost, index-tracking products, writes HSBC's Andy Clark.

Schroders is eyeing the addition of enhanced index-based products to its retail range in preparation for an expected increase in passive fund use post-RDR.

Welcome to Investment Week's quick-fire guide to yesterday's RDR developments.

Cofunds chief executive Brett Williams believes proposed changes to platform remuneration is likely to lead to increased costs and heightened adviser confusion.

The FSA is set to bring in new capital adequacy requirements for platforms, it said today in its platform discussion paper, warning the cost of ongoing business for some players will increase.