Investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown signed up 23,000 new clients in the last quarter to push up its total number of active clients to 1.677m, the firm reported today.

A major consumer survey has found that nearly one in four people (24%) are only “just about getting by financially” post pandemic while 8% are struggling to manage. 

Online investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown saw pre-tax profits dip by 3% over the past year but reported clients numbers surging by 233,000 to a record 1.645m.

Clients aged 30-54 are the most likely to have been the first to invest in equity ISAs in the new tax year, according to Hargreaves Lansdown data.