IFA to launch D2C service to meet client demand

Carmen Reichman
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An IFA is to launch a non-advised investment proposition alongside its fully advised service to allow clients to "dip in and out of advice as they please".

Glasgow-based Killermont Investments is looking to launch Investing Well at the end of February, offering clients free online savings calculators and risk profilers to enable them to invest on an execution-only basis. The firm said the difference between D2C propositions already in the market, such as Hargreaves Lansdown and Nutmeg, and Investing Well, is that it was developed by advisers, who are at hand to field questions. "If they want financial advice or just ask a question they can contact us and do that," said director Craig Richardson. The service was borne out of looking at...

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