Bestinvest is an investment company based in Mayfair, London providing ISAs, unit trusts, SIPPs and VCTs to investors.
The company serves 70,000 clients through its website, telephone-based investment advisers and face-to-face meetings. Clients' investments are typically in funds - unit trusts, OEICs and investment trusts - or bespoke discretionary funds.
It also offers investment advice, discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals and companies, charities and other financial institutions through the Tilney Group.
News that the UK's best known fund manager Neil Woodford is leaving Invesco Perpetual after 25 years has caused leading fund brokers to suspend their ratings of his portfolios.
UK managers have called into question domestic equity valuations, saying recent landmark events should act as a warning sign for investors.
Bestinvest has suspended its rating of the iShares S&P 500 ETF, after the provider announced today it will only cut the fee on the accumulating share class, and not the distribution version.
Funds including the Absolute Insight fund of funds and GAM's US equity offering are among those to have made the latest Bestinvest Premier Selection guide.
A number of big name fund managers have been flagged by Bestinvest's latest infamous list of "dog funds", which names and shames the worst performing funds available to UK investors.
A number of wealth managers have privately warned fund groups they will be less inclined to recommend funds which give preferential prices to the biggest distributors in the market, Investment Week understands.
UK equity income funds are nearing single stock limits on key holdings, causing concentration risk fears to mount, but which funds are taking the biggest bets?
Morningstar has voiced concerns about the lack of succession planning in the funds industry and the reluctance of groups to hand over large pots of money to young talent.
As the most popular emerging market equity funds are soft closing to stem inflows, wealth managers are being forced to look for alternatives beyond their usual top picks.