The Financial Conduct Authority has published rules to make the way that investors pay for platforms more transparent. In the future, platforms, in both the advised and non-advised market, will not be allowed to be funded by payments (commonly described as ‘rebates’) from product providers.  Instead, a platform service must be paid for by a platform charge which is disclosed to and agreed by the investor. . .

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