by Callum Lawson-Gallagher | 12 July 2024 | UK D2C
UK Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) assets passed the £500 billion mark by the end of Q1 2024, but it was strong investment performance rather than net flows that drove assets higher. Much of the D2C market is dominated by direct platforms that offer open-architecture...
by Callum Lawson-Gallagher | 26 April 2024 | UK D2C
The evolving D2C landscape is shifting the distribution opportunities for asset managers. While they have historically relied on direct platforms for product distribution, new opportunities are emerging with neo-brokers. These are often all-in-one investment solutions...
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 Lottie Bussell-Ahern | 12 January 2024 | UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C, UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution, UK Wealth Management
The proportion of UK adults who are investors rose slightly over the past year – a positive sign in a rather disappointing year. But these headline numbers disguise some important inter-generational shifts, according to our latest UK Consumer Insights report. • The...
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....
