Technology

Alliance Trust Savings (ATS) has unveiled plans to expand its direct to consumer (D2C) platform to IFAs, in a challenge to traditional players.

The regulator has missed a vital opportunity to provide clarity over platform rules and its current "cluttered" policy risks undermining RDR, Cofunds has warned.

Wrap platform Novia has added Ashcourt Rowan Asset Management to its panel of discretionary managers.

Cofunds has revealed that less than 10% of advised clients on its platform are currently associated with a fee-based remuneration model.

Standard Life, True Potential and Wealthtime have emerged on top of a survey of some of the major wraps and platforms.

This week Mark Loosmore of AT8 Group speaks to a range of industry experts about the role quotation portals may play in a post-RDR world

Nucleus chief executive David Ferguson discusses how wraps are playing a crucial part in moving the financial services sector forward.

The winners of the Aberdeen Platform Awards 2011 were announced at a glittering awards ceremony in London last night.

Questions around the actual size of any target market and the problem of charging fees could hamper the success of simplified advice, according to Zurich UK Life's Matthew Connell.

Provider Friends Life has launched an online and over-the-phone financial advice service for existing customers who no longer have - or never had - a financial adviser.