Regions
SJP drops Aberdeen Standard as ethical manager
A sustained period of underperformance has prompted St James’s Place (SJP) to drop Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) and appoint Impax Asset Management to run its £286m (€320m, $375m) ethical fund.
AFH Group boss calls platforms ‘dead weight’ as he scraps fees
UK investment management company AFH Group has blasted platforms as too expensive and announced the company will be absorbing fees for new clients and scrapping them for existing clients.
Australia looks to rate 1,800 adviser licensees
In a bid to restore faith in the country’s financial services industry, the Australian government is considering a proposal that will rate 1,800 financial advice licensees.
Retirement | 31 Jul 18
Pension transfers into Qrops cools to £740m
Measures designed to curb the abuse of transfers to qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes (Qrops) appear to have been effective, the latest UK government figures reveal.
£20bn withdrawn since pension freedoms launched
The popularity of the UK’s pension freedoms is showing no signs of slowing, with almost £20bn ($26.2bn, €22.4bn) having now been flexibly accessed since the reforms launched in April 2015, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue & Customs.