Our regular round-up of the latest insights on investment distribution

DFM models on platform

Discretionary fund management model portfolios on platform are a hot topic – and rightly so. They are a powerful source of growth for platform assets and a sleek route for DFMs to access the wider retail market. It is still early days for model portfolios on...

Chew the Fat over FAMR

This week saw the release of the much-anticipated Financial Advice Market Review (“FAMR”, dubbed farmer) and the budget. FAMR was an opportunity wasted.  It was a restatement of the problems we all know exist – and an elaborate restatement at 85 pages! On April...

The Customer Service and Cost Conundrum

We arrived at the office today to confirmation of rumours that Old Mutual is being split into four to drive growth of the individual business units. At the same time Old Mutual Wealth announced results and the accompanying commentary struck me as refreshingly...