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Hargreaves Lansdown & Vanguard Investment Data UK | Actowiz

Author : Actowiz Solutions | Published On : 26 Jun 2026

Industry

Fintech / Investment / Wealth Management

Geography

United Kingdom — UK-listed funds, ETFs, investment trusts

Data Coverage

Fund prices, holdings, fees, performance, fund manager changes, ISA/SIPP eligibility

Actowiz Solutions delivered investment fund and ETF data aggregation for a UK wealth-management fintech — combining Hargreaves Lansdown, Vanguard, AJ Bell, and interactive investor data into a unified fund intelligence layer for UK retail investors.

Client Overview

The client is a fast-growing UK robo-advisor platform serving 180,000 retail investors with AI-powered ISA and SIPP portfolio recommendations. Their core proposition depended on continuously refreshed, multi-platform fund data gathered through web scraping, spanning OEICs, unit trusts, ETFs, and investment trusts.

UK retail investment is dominated by a handful of platforms — Hargreaves Lansdown, AJ Bell, interactive investor, Vanguard — each with slightly different fund universes and fee structures.

Business Challenges

Multi-Platform Fund Universe

Each platform supported a slightly different fund universe; clients needed unified coverage across all four major platforms.

Fee Transparency Complexity

Platform fees, fund OCF, dealing charges, and ISA/SIPP wrappers created multi-layered cost calculations — opaque to most investors.

Fund Manager Change Detection

Manager changes are major fund-quality signals but buried in PDF factsheets and platform updates.

Holdings & Concentration Data

Top-10 holdings per fund needed quarterly tracking to detect strategy drift and concentration risk.

Project Objectives

The client partnered with Actowiz Solutions to:

  • Aggregate 12,000+ funds & ETFs across UK Big 4 investment platforms

  • Capture daily NAV, OCF, and platform fees for true all-in cost analysis

  • Detect fund manager changes within 7 days

  • Track quarterly holdings and concentration metrics

  • Deliver investor-grade structured data via REST API

Actowiz Solutions Approach

Multi-Platform Crawl Pipeline

Dedicated crawlers for Hargreaves Lansdown, Vanguard UK, AJ Bell, and interactive investor captured daily prices, fees, and holdings, creating a robust Data Intelligence layer for portfolio analysis and investment benchmarking.

Fee Decomposition Engine

Calculated total cost of ownership across platform fee + OCF + dealing charges per fund per wrapper type (ISA, SIPP, GIA).

Manager Change NLP

Fine-tuned model parsed monthly fund factsheets and platform announcements to detect manager changes within 7 days.

FCA & Companies House Cross-Reference

Linked fund manager data with FCA register and Companies House records for compliance and pedigree verification.

REST API & Webhook Delivery

Daily NAV updates, real-time manager change alerts, and quarterly holdings refresh delivered to the client's algorithm.

Sample Data Snapshot (Illustrative)

  • Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap (Vanguard): 0.23% OCF, 0.15% platform fee, 0.38% all-in cost, no manager change

  • Vanguard FTSE Global All Cap (HL): 0.23% OCF, 0.45% platform fee, 0.68% all-in cost, no manager change

  • Fundsmith Equity (HL): 0.94% OCF, 0.45% platform fee, 1.39% all-in cost, manager change in Sep 2023

  • Fundsmith Equity (AJ Bell): 0.94% OCF, 0.25% platform fee, 1.19% all-in cost, manager change in Sep 2023

  • Lindsell Train UK Equity (ii): 0.65% OCF, £9.99/month platform fee, all-in cost varies, manager change in Aug 2024

Key Features

  • 12,000+ funds & ETFs across 4 major UK platforms

  • Daily NAV, OCF, and platform fee capture

  • All-in cost decomposition by wrapper type

  • Fund manager change detection within 7 days

  • Quarterly top-10 holdings tracking

  • FCA & Companies House cross-reference

Business Impact

Within 9 months:

  • 180,000+ retail investors served with always-fresh fund data

  • £42M in additional AUM driven by transparent fee analysis

  • 31% improvement in client portfolio recommendation accuracy

  • Eliminated £180K annual fund-data vendor spend

  • Industry-first daily refresh on a robo-advisor platform

Testimonial

"Our investors trust us because our fund data is the freshest in UK retail. Actowiz powers that promise every single day."

— CTO, UK Robo-Advisor Platform

Conclusion

UK retail investment is built on trust and transparency — and both require continuously fresh, multi-platform fund data. Actowiz Solutions built the only aggregation engine spanning Hargreaves Lansdown, Vanguard, AJ Bell, and interactive investor — empowering a robo-advisor platform to serve 180,000+ investors with confidence.

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