F&TRC launches adviser software comparison tool

Nicola Brittain
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The Finance & Technology Research Centre (F&TRC) has soft launched a free software comparison tool to help advisers compare available software according to their own priorities.

The tool identifies an adviser's priorities by asking them to consider 29 different areas, it them compares these priorities against benchmarks created by the F&TRC. The tool will look at an adviser's needs with regard to fact finding, adviser charging, suitability, diary management and work flow. The F&TRC has taken several years to develop the tool which is now ready to be rolled out to a limited number of advisers and providers. Ian McKenna director of F&TRC said the tool would probably be available to all advisers by the end of the year.  The tool will also be launched along...

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