Bestinvest looks set to target the mid-tier self-invested personal pension (SIPP) market after revealing a clean pricing model beginning at 30bps for SIPP accounts below £250,000.

Brewin Dolphin felt the impact of removing trail commission in its latest results, with non-core income falling by 40% in the final quarter of 2013.

John Duffield has hired former colleague Mark Skinner as an adviser to develop Brompton Asset Management's retail business.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management is to launch an onshore version of its Luxembourg-domiciled America Equity fund, with the OEIC made available to UK investors from 31 January.

POLSON ON HARGREAVES LANSDOWN

Hargreaves Lansdown will not announce the funds on its revamped Wealth 150 list until 1 March - but said it has secured annual management charges (AMCs) as low as 30bps for some active equity funds.

Old Mutual Global Investors' Richard Buxton has told IFAonline sister title Investment Week his move from Schroders to his new firm is his last in fund management.

Since Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke first raised the prospect of tapering on 22 May, bond funds have endured a torrid run, but some have coped much better than others.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) is to discontinue third party funds on its Wealth Manager Plus direct to consumer (D2C) platform.

The managers of the £3bn Scottish Mortgage investment trust have added a number of idiosyncratic stocks to their portfolio in the belief that 'safer' companies could be set for a fall.