Technology

Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) has made its discretionary portfolio fund range available to advisers via True Potential's Wealth platform.

Advice firms should not become fixated on remaining independent, network and support service provider Sesame Bankhall has said.

The pick of this week's articles on IFAonline...

Skandia UK has revealed plans to offer advisers the chance to co-brand the platform, as well as expand the range of services customers can directly access on its platform, amid a fall in profits.

Novia has added Arjent's multi-asset portfolios to the wrap in an expansion of its discretionary manager offering.

WHAT'S HOT?

NO FRILLS

Charles Stanley has appointed Cofunds as its fund custodian in a deal which will see £1.2bn of funds moved across to the platform's institutional arm.

Financial services and platform provider True Potential has made a lifestyle planning tool available to its 4,000 IFA users.

Skandia has removed a price comparison service from its PlatformWatch tool due to "lack of cooperation" from other platforms.