Prudential has launched a range of clean share classes, known as ‘P shares', which are available on the Standard Life and Aviva platforms.
A record year to date performance has taken Ascentric and IFDL past the £7bn milestone for assets under administration.
Skandia has seen a rapid rise in the number of advisers writing flexible drawdown business on its pension platform, with figures up 200% in the past 12 months.
Zurich's UK platform assets had grown to £6.97bn by the end of the third quarter.
The platform industry "nudged" into a collective profit for the first time in its history in 2012, according to figures compiled by Altus.
Wrap platform Nucleus has published a pricing guide for advisers which breaks down platform charges.
Hargreaves Lansdown will not be carrying out bulk switches of client money from bundled to clean or super clean share classes, Investment Week can reveal.
Alliance Trust Savings has hired Damian Smyth from Cofunds to head its intermediary sales team.
Standard Life has announced a review of its FundZone and Sigma fund supermarkets, in order to make them more "wrap-like".