Vanguard has launched a direct to consumer platform offering “your chance to invest directly”.

Wrap platform Nucleus has revealed a price cut for clients with larger portfolios.

Standard Life has confirmed that it will retain Elevate, the investment platform it acquired from AXA Wealth, despite also operating its own platform.

Platforms of the future will need to be £60bn or more, an Aegon boss says, as he dismissed the suggestion that the firm paid too much for Cofunds recently.