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Tag Archives: Hargreaves Lansdown
Putting our money where their mouth is? We’re not there yet!
Last night I had the chance to listen to the Lord Mayor’s lecture – organised by Gresham College which is a few yards from where I live. If this had happened last year, I would not have been invited or … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviva, Fidelity, Gresham College, Hargreaves Lansdown, Interactive Investor, L&G, Lord Mayor, Lord Mayor's Show, Mark Carney, Pension Bee, Standard Life
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Pension Plowman’s guide to 2020 IGC reports
This is a big year for IGCs. It is their fifth birthday, it’s the year when the FCA reviews their effectiveness and it’s the year of the pandemic, where providers and savers will be under maximum strain. Most of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aegon, Aviva, BlackRock, FCA, Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, IGC report, L&G, Pensions, Phoenix, Prudential, Reassure, Royal London, Scottish Widows, SJP, Standard Life, Virgin Monday, workplace Pensions, Zurich
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From an empty chair; Hargreaves Lansdown’s excellent IGC statement.
A cautionary tale It has been a difficult year for Hargreaves Lansdown’s IGC and they have launched their Chair’s statement without a Chair. This unusual state of affair followed the departure of David Grimes with clearly no succession plan … Continue reading
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Tagged Chair, David Grimes, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, pension, pensions
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The good in gating.
The wonder of the gating of the Woodford Equity Income Fund is that it happened in peacetime. There is no financial storm, the crisis is as random of the fall of Icarus in Breughel’s famous painting. There’s no doubt … Continue reading
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Tagged Gating, Hargreaves Lansdown, illiquidity, pensions, platforms, SJP, Woodford
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What does SJP “sacking” Woodford mean?
“HL removed Woodford from its Wealth 50 but did not force sell the funds as SJP has.” But this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how SJP (costly restricted funds) and HL (costly self-select platform) work! https://t.co/6eQoSKNK0T — Alistair Cunningham (@Cunningham_UK) … Continue reading
Posted in FCA, governance, pensions
Tagged Funds, governance, Hargreaves Lansdown, pensions, pooled fund, segregated mandate, SJP, Woodford
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Herding , Woodford and platforms
Adam Norris , the genius behind much of Hargreaves Lansdown’s success told me how he switched money in bulk from Equitable Life onto the HL platform. He read the society’s rules and discovered that as an Equitable policyholder, he was … Continue reading
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Tagged Hargreaves Lansdown, Liquidity, pensions, SJP, Woodford
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From zero to hero – the Hargreaves Lansdown IGC report
Hargreaves Lansdown’s (HL) 2015 -16 IGC report was embarrassingly bad. I got cross that a successful funds platform didn’t put its back into independent governance. Hargreaves’ Vantage product (now HL Workplace Pension) was at the time being widely promoted as … Continue reading
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Tagged Hargreaves Lansdown, HL, IGC, pensions, Value for Money, VFM
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The “wonder” of wealth
As Dr Chris Sier entered the Corinthia Hotel on Wednesday, en route to a cup of tea with the AgeWage management team, he noticed a gentleman handing over his Bentley keys to the doorman, with a fifty pound note as a tip . … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, Hargreaves Lansdown, pension, pensions, Samuel Johnson, SJP, wealth management
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The problem with platforms (is that everyone loves them).
Platforms are a relatively new but significant and growing distribution channel. The platform service provider market has doubled since 2013 from £250bn to £500bnassets under administration (AUA). This growth in AUA has been driven by rising markets and increasing levels … Continue reading
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Tagged Boring Money, Drawdown, FCA, Hargreaves Lansdown, LaingCat, pensions, platforms, SIPP, St James Place, Vanguard
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How important is investment transparency to savers?
This is the 5th of a series of eight blogs addressing the eight questions posed by the WPC. Today’s exam question is How important is investment transparency to savers? A short answer is ” a lot more important than most … Continue reading
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Tagged chris sier, Fidelity, Hargreaves Lansdown, IGC, pensions, Transparency
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