Happyish New Year – ATS hikes its charges
Well, here we are on the last day of 2013 and I’m writing about platform pricing. Plus ca change, and all that. Our subject today – and I’ll be brief – is Alliance Trust Savings (disclosure: ATS is a client of the lang cat), which has hiked its price for both advised and direct customers. […]
Whiskers on kittens
Having seen out my first week in my new home at the lang cat I decided to take some time to reflect upon the experience to date. That and the fact that I was locked out of the office meant that there wasn’t much else to be getting on with for a while. Much has […]
So clean they’re dirty – zero AMC funds hove into view
So yesterday Architas, the multi-manager arm of AXA did something a bit unusual. It decided to offer investors on Elevate or Cofunds’ institutional platform access to a new share class on its funds. You can read the story on Fundweb here. Nothing that unusual about launching a new share class except that this one has […]
The difficult second album
A brief, extra-self-indulgent post today. If you want to skip this one, go ahead. I won’t hold it against you. So today is the last trading day of the lang catâ??s 2nd full year. the lang cat has had a pretty amazing year, doing close on twice the amount of business I thought it would. […]
Just write the cheque already
Well, that’s been fun. The last 24 hours or so have seen a flurry of to-ing and fro-ing as a result of a Dear Compliance Officer letter from the FSA that landed on desks yesterday.It’s all to do with adviser charging and making sure platforms / providers can be really sure that clients have stuck […]
Cofunds get their transparency on
So I had the pleasure of attending the Cofunds’ relaunch / refresh / briefing today, wherein Martin, Verona and the gang told us about their plans for unbundling and changing the Cofunds proposition over the next year or so. I’ve been looking forward to this announcement as I am a bit of a fan of […]
Cofunds get their transparency on
So I had the pleasure of attending the Cofunds’ relaunch / refresh / briefing today, wherein Martin, Verona and the gang told us about their plans for unbundling and changing the Cofunds proposition over the next year or so. I’ve been looking forward to this announcement as I am a bit of a fan of […]
Where next for platform inflows?
One of the luxuries of being independent is that you can take your time to think about the stories of the day before posting. So it’s in that spirit that I’ve been chewing over the new inflow figures from the always insightful Platforum and their thoughts on why growth is flatlining (that isn’t to say […]
Where next for platform inflows?
One of the luxuries of being independent is that you can take your time to think about the stories of the day before posting. So it’s in that spirit that I’ve been chewing over the new inflow figures from the always insightful Platforum and their thoughts on why growth is flatlining (that isn’t to say […]
Gracious, how vexing.
A short but highly peeved post today as a result of the FSA mucking about still further on platform rebates. You can read a summary of the story on Citywire, with a fetching picture of Hugo. I’ve written before on the lunacy of the cash rebate ban on platforms. On the patented Lang Cat Scale […]
