10 August, 2025 Chief Investment Officer, Alan Miller, continues to fight for investors in the Woodford mis-selling scandal
22 December, 2024 Alan Miller comments that the sheer size of WEI’s illiquid investments made it almost impossible for Woodford to navigate any prolonged period of underperformance.
18 July, 2024 A pension shake-up plan from the Millers City Comment: Call for funds to own 20% of UK equities
5 January, 2024 Od Ed from our CIO, Alan Miller “Stockmarket floats – Good for brokers, disastrous for investors”
Research by SCM Direct finds investment platforms have been profiteering by taking a cut form client’ cash held on their platforms – to the tune of £1.3 billion a year.
Scandalous behaviour by #investment companies and platforms continues whilst @theFCA continues to fail to ensure customers are being treated fairly! Britain’s wealth managers on the ropes as their own shares plummet
City Voices: The UK’s investment dinosaurs have grown very fat over many years feasting on more victims
SCM Direct’s Alan Miller pointed St James Place fee announcement is not that consumer-friendly. Existing clients will still be subject to charges as high as 6%. Only new clients joining from late 2025 will be immune. ‘SJP should bite the bullet, bin exit penalties for ALL clients now’
12 March, 2023 Financial regulator asked to quantify cost to investors of its impending clampdown on the marketing of green investment funds
26 November, 2022 ‘Greenwashing’ code that looks a whitewash – FCA wants to make ESG ratings fit for purpose – but it ain’t going to happen!
10 September, 2022 JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Burgeoning Environmental, Social and Governance investment sector is currently a mess: Sin free?
13 August, 2022 Inflation isn’t the only menace on the loose: WATCH OUT! Greedy fund charges can gobble up ALL your returns
6 August, 2022 Do-it-yourself investors being urged to review their portfolios to ensure they are fit for purpose: Is YOUR fund named on the laggards list?
8 August, 2021 Neil Woodford investors may face another ‘significant haircut’ to their remaining investment before the fund’s wind-up is complete
21 June, 2021 SCM’s Chief Investment Officer “equities had historically provided better protection than gold when inflation is up to 6 per cent or so”
3 June, 2021 Patience wearing thin with FCA’s snail-like progress two years on from Woodford fund suspension
1 June, 2021 M&G sends out incorrect statements to 10,000 customers. SCM’s Alan Miller says ‘Such occurrences undermine investor confidence not just in M&G but the industry as a whole’.
30 May, 2021 Two years since the suspension of his Equity Income Fund…Woodford still has the last laugh
30 May, 2021 St James Place Exit fees: Gina Miller has called these withdrawal penalties ‘anti-consumer and anti-competitive’
8 March, 2021 Woodford comeback ‘on the rocks’ after Jersey regulator refuses to be ‘back door’ for relaunch
27 February, 2021 Where to invest, what to avoid and is there a green shares bubble that could burst?
16 February, 2021 Gina Miller calls for independent probe of Woodford scandal: ‘Nothing short of an insult’
15 February, 2021 City investors outraged at return of former stockpicking star Neil Woodford and call on Financial Conduct Authority to ban him
8 December, 2020 SJP’s green initiative labelled a ‘woke’ PR stunt to shift focus from fees and performance
14 November, 2020 If you’d invested £5,000 five years ago, it would be worth a mind-blowing £20,255 now, so can tech star Scottish Mortgage keep on rising?
11 August, 2020 Value assessments expose ‘scandalous’ inaction over investors in legacy share classes
13 July, 2020 Featured in this article Alan Miller Barnaby Barker SCM Direct SCM Direct: Unwrapping the ESG investing trend
22 June, 2020 Questions raised over whether new FCA boss has the chops to repair trust in the regulator
18 June, 2020 Massive Growth on Wealth Management Market in forecast 2020 by top key vendors like Bank of America Merrill Lynch, National Australia Bank, SCM Direct, UBS, Charles Stanley, Wells Fargo
1 June, 2020 WEALTH MANAGEMENT MARKET 2020 |GLOBAL INDUSTRY ANALYSIS BY TRENDS, SIZE, SHARE, COMPANY OVERVIEW, GROWTH AND FORECAST BY 2025
2 February, 2020 JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Time for a change in strategy at top of Financial Conduct Authority or risk a new Woodford
8 January, 2020 Investment industry is ‘morally bankrupt’, say campaigners in wake of Woodford fees scandal
7 January, 2020 Neil Woodford and right hand man Craig Newman cashed in with £14 million divi as fund group failed
4 November, 2019 ‘Ethical’ funds ‘ploughing’ money into Big Oil – three things your clients may call you about this week …
20 September, 2019 St James’s Place’s ‘scandalous’ fees in spotlight as Hargreaves Lansdown scraps exit fees
18 June, 2019 The FCA’s legalistic, rules-based approach is no substitute for intervening early, harshly and often
18 June, 2019 Shoppers and retailers must tackle the scourge of fast fashion, if the Government won’t
27 October, 2018 The investor watchdog is failing to enforce the new rules that require financial groups to disclose all the charges they levy on investors.
8 October, 2018 Article 24 of Mifid II requires firms to show all costs, explicit and implicit, in percentages as well as pounds and pence.
10 April, 2018 Would you heed a ‘wealth warning’ on fund charges? City watchdog tests new alerts and messages on hundreds of investors
11 July, 2017 Should you pay a fund manager more if they beat the market? We look at whether controversial performance fees are ever a good idea
6 March, 2017 Brexit challenger Gina Miller’s firm condemns active fund management industry for having “no genuine price competition”
22 November, 2016 SCM Direct, JH&P and Investment Quorum: Spear’s 500 top wealth management professionals unveiled
