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Insurer Aviva has launched a direct to consumer (D2C) platform giving consumers access to a general investment account, and ISA and a self-invested personal pension (SIPP).

Thesis Asset Management has launched a UK equity-only model portfolio that invests in direct securities rather than funds.

Investment trust sales on adviser platforms reached a record high in the first quarter of 2015.

Succession Advisory Services is set to apply for discretionary permissions as the company looks to extend its offering.

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Fees charged by discretionary fund managers to platforms are set to face the same downwards pressure being seen elsewhere in the industry, Nucleus business development director Barry Neilson has predicted.

A "combination of politics and pensions" contributed to slower sales across platforms in the first three months of the year, with the year-on-year (YOY) asset growth rate also receding, according to research.

Brewin Dolphin's sale of execution-only platform Stocktrade to Alliance Trust has been tipped to prompt a further turnaround in investors' view of the wealth manager.

AXA Wealth reported record inflows to its wrap platform Elevate in the month before the 6 April introduction of widespread pension reforms, taking total assets beyond £10bn and pushing the group's overall funds under management (FUM) closer to the £30bn...