Technology

Threadneedle is the latest fund house to sign with Novia to have its full range of funds available on the platform.

The wrap market has proved "immune" to this year's slump in IFA sales, Nucleus chief executive David Ferguson says.

Platform providers are set to move into the SIPP market, intensifying competition in the sector, according to Dunstan Thomas.

One in four intermediaries is "definitely considering" a web-based or guided sales model in the run up to the RDR, a new study reveals.

Legal & General (L&G) says more than half of protection applications are now placed on risk immediately thanks to its new online tracking tool.

Nucleus' Philip Martin is to leave his role as business development director at the IFA-owned and controlled wrap platform he helped launch three years ago.

True Potential has added risk assessment tools from Morningstar and asset allocation models from Ibbotson Associates (a unit of Morningstar) to its business platform.

Platform providers have been forced to defend themselves following criticism from the IMA they are not passing on key fund information to advisers and their clients effectively.

Focus Solutions Group, the technology provider, has posted a 27% profit increase for the year ended 31 March 2009.

I'll start and end with the recent news that Skandia has performed a spectacular u-turn and is no longer planning to offer re-registration away from its platform.