Bestinvest is an investment company based in Mayfair, London providing ISAs, unit trusts, SIPPs and VCTs to investors.
The company serves 70,000 clients through its website, telephone-based investment advisers and face-to-face meetings. Clients' investments are typically in funds - unit trusts, OEICs and investment trusts - or bespoke discretionary funds.
It also offers investment advice, discretionary investment management and financial planning services to individuals and companies, charities and other financial institutions through the Tilney Group.
Saga Investment Services, the recently launched financial planning business, has appointed Nicola Audhlam-Gardiner as managing director.
Former Signia Wealth director Martin King has joined Tilney Bestinvest to lead its investment management division.
Bestinvest founder John Spiers has hired a six-strong team for the launch of a new investment service at his recently acquired wealth management business, EQ Investors.
Tilney Bestinvest has named nine funds that have consistently earned its top fund rating over the past five years.
The partners of Seven Investment Management (7IM) are considering selling the business, according to reports.
Nine Aberdeen funds have made Tilney Bestinvest's 'dog list' of underperforming funds, as the SWIP acquisition and a US underweight in its global funds dragged on performance.
Saga and Tilney Bestinvest are to launch a joint venture offering investment and financial planning services to the UK's over-50s.
Former international cricketer Douglas Lockhart has joined Tilney Bestinvest as an associate director.
With currency moves increasingly dominating financial headlines, Tilney Bestinvest's CIO has predicted hedging, not asset allocation, will be the key differentiator for investor returns next year.
Giles Hargreave has been ranked number one in a report by Tilney Bestinvest looking to identify the top 100 equity fund managers in the UK.