Last night was the prestigious Platform Awards. Here are all the winners and the judges comments on why they scooped the prizes.
IFAonline's sister title Investment Week's news editor Nick Paler took the top accolade at last night's Platform Awards, winning journalist of the year.
Charles Stanley Direct has criticised Hargreaves Lansdown over the cost of its platform transfer charges after the country's biggest D2C platform delayed its shift to a new pricing structure.
A new execution-only platform has entered the market allowing DIY investors to manage their portfolios in one place.
Are advisers better off leaving fund share class conversions to platforms (as some have suggested), or should they carry it out themselves?
Standard Life has agreed discounted ‘super clean' share class deals with seven fund groups - including Cazenove, Schroders and Threadneedle - with a further four set to be announced by the end of October.
Cofunds has reinstated the platform charge on its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) after adding trading accounts to client funding options.
Advisers and consumers should ask ‘critical questions' about whether the experience of using platforms justifies the additional costs and complexities involved, according to Bruce Moss, founder and strategy director at eValue.
The introduction of super clean share classes will be a short-lived arrangement but one that still has the potential to drive platform consolidation, says UBS Wealth Management executive director Graeme Price.