Hargreaves Lansdown H1 pretax profits up 12 pct to 146.9 mln stg
LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - British fund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown (Frankfurt: DMB.F - news) on Tuesday posted a 12 percent rise in first-half pretax profit, boosted by a rise in client numbers and total assets.
Hargreaves, which offers a range of financial services to mainly retail clients, said pretax profit at the end of December was 146.9 million pounds ($205.34 million), up from 131 million pounds a year earlier.
($1 = 0.7154 pounds) (Reporting by Simon Jessop, editing by Maiya Keidan)