wealth management

Investec Wealth & Investment is to launch an online simplified advice service later this year and has appointed Jane Warren to oversee the launch.

The Wealth Management Association (WMA) is calling for an overhaul of the retail bond market in order to make it more accessible to wealth managers and their clients.

Old Mutual Wealth has hired Openwork's chief executive Mary-Anne McIntyre as chief distribution officer.

Wealth manager Brooks Macdonald expects its funds business to break even in the second half of its financial year, and will turn a profit for the first time in 2015-16.

FATCA is tip of the iceberg for wealth firms

Bestinvest founder John Spiers has hired a six-strong team for the launch of a new investment service at his recently acquired wealth management business, EQ Investors.

WH Ireland's pre-tax profits have fallen 70% after a year of restructuring, but assets under management in its wealth division rose healthily.

Monetary policy changes have prompted Parmenion to adjust the European and UK equity weightings in its tactical portfolios.

Fidelity's Leigh Himsworth is investing in wealth management companies as a key theme within his UK Opportunities fund, in the hope M&A and pension reforms will boost the sector.

'Wealth managers have a lot to learn from supermarkets'