by Jeremy Fawcett | 16 February 2024 | UK D2C
As the UK D2C market approaches £500bn, the incumbents are still dominant but the shape of the market is changing. Direct platforms still manage the lion’s share of assets, according to Platforum’s UK D2C: Market Overview, published this week. Hargreaves Lansdown...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 20 October 2023 | UK D2C
Providing good online experience for investors is challenging. Managing ongoing relationships is more complicated than providing transactional services. Our annual investor experience research finds some areas of improvement and picks out the Platforum Online...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 28 April 2023 | UK D2C, UK Fund Distribution
Select lists are still an important lever of D2C investment distribution even if they are not pushed as hard as they used to be by the direct platforms that compile them. This is according to our latest research – UK D2C: Investment Distribution – published this week....
by Jeremy Fawcett | 17 February 2023 | UK D2C
The D2C market has been on a rollercoaster ride with the explosion of personal investing in the pandemic, followed by a decline in asset prices and deflated investor confidence. Potential headwinds are reflected by the flak that Hargreaves Lansdown took from city...
by Jeremy Fawcett | 25 November 2022 | UK D2C
The advice gap is on the mind of the new City Minister, according to his comments at yesterday’s TISA conference. This is welcome news to online investing services that say they can do more to help the over 16m UK adults who have investible assets of £10,000 but tend...
