Technology

Friends Provident will host its third online adviser seminar tomorrow, with a focus on changes to welfare reform and the impact on clients.

Five Insight funds have been added to James Hay's Collect SIPP platform, including its unconstrained 'Diversified' range.

Nucleus Financial's David Ferguson has hit out at wrap providers which "hide behind" bundled charging structures for hindering client transparency.

Software has already been launched to cater for the ‘guided sales' approach outlined in the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), with a pilot scheme currently in progress.

Three in ten advisers have yet to set up a website and may struggle to match their competitors as a result, according to IFA Promotion.

The UK adviser market's latest wealth management platform Novia has vowed to break into the black in its second year of operation.

Fidelity FundsNetwork has launched a website to complement its adviser training and development solution, Platform for Learning.

An adviser/client-facing web-based advice tool, Voyant, is being launched by IFA support firm Cavendish IT Solutions, which it claims could reignite consumer engagement with the industry, in light of the RDR, TCF and other regulatory pressures.

Standard Life has rolled out an incentive to encourage advisers to re-register clients onto Fundzone.

Nucleus has signed up its 30 th firm so far this year bringing the total number of IFA-member firms to 60, and the number of individual advisers using the platform to over 300.