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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has declared the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), its long-standing project to revamp the retail investment advice market, is working, though some concerns remain on the costs of advisers' services.

Tim Orton, chief executive of Aviva's platform business, is aiming to double assets under administration (AUA) to £10bn by the end of 2015.

Hargreaves Lansdown chief financial officer Tracey Taylor has stepped down from her role and will leave the business next year.

Revealing platforms' profitability (and why it matters)

Platforms will hold off cutting fees further until after they have dealt with significant changes to pricing structures in the first half of 2016, Standard Life's platform head has predicted.

Old Mutual Wealth's investment platform expert Mike Barrett (pictured) explains the thinking behind the group's plan to bulk-convert clients to unbundled share classes in 2015.

Investors make only tiny savings from headline-grabbing ‘super clean' share classes, according to new research by the lang cat.

Nucleus has boosted assets under administration by 25% year-on-year in the third quarter after a strong summer for gross inflows.

Friends Life may offer multi-asset funds when it launches its retail platform in April next year, its chief executive has confirmed.

Platforms saw the rate of assets under administration (AUA) growth jump by almost a fifth in the third quarter of 2014, according to research from Fundscape.