Standard Life has secured discounts from 12 external fund groups across 291 clean funds, equivalent to an average AMC discount of 13bps.

Charles Stanley has appointed Simon Davis as a director of wealth management in the company's financial services division.

Fidelity Personal Investing has called for a ban on exit fees from all long term savings products in order to improve competition in the direct-to-consumer marketplace.

It's our round-up of the stories your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend

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Axa Wealth has launched an online pension top-up service for its Retirement Wealth Account and Individual Personal Pension.

Interactive Investor has launched a direct-to-consumer (D2C) white label proposition with FE Trustnet as its first partner.

The Standard Life wrap is launching a third party discretionary fund management (DFM) service for advisers.

Ensuring direct-to-consumer (D2C) platforms do not stray into advice has become an "obsession" that is ultimately stunting innovation, a report has concluded.