Hargreaves Lansdown
Hargreaves £15m tax case win over HMRC
Hargreaves Lansdown has won a tax tribunal appeal against HM Revenue & Customs that will see around 150,000 investors receive a £15m ($20.9m, €17m) rebate.
Platforms are dead, says The Lang Cat boss
Platforms have spurned the gift of the retail distribution review (RDR) and are dead, according to Mark Polson, founder of financial services consultancy The Lang Cat.
Best Practice | 19 Feb 18
7 tips to compare drawdown providers
The number of providers offering drawdown has gone up since the pension vehicle was first introduced in the UK in 1995, but differences in quality of service and charges can be substantial, warns Hargreaves Lansdown, which has offered seven tips to compare providers.
Hargreaves suffers from FTSE 100 slump as assets hit £86bn
Hargreaves Lansdown was swept up in the FTSE 100 sell-off on Tuesday, despite posting a strong set of first half results, including £3.34bn ($4.66bn, €3.76bn) of net new business.
How investors were fooled by the Carillion mirage
Carillion’s investment story, like other firms before it, ultimately evolved into something that sounded too good to be true. Its collapse on Monday raises many questions, namely, at the stage it was in before entering liquidation, who would have even wanted to own it?