Technology

Over the past few months, Mark Loosmore from technology consultancy AT8 has been reviewing adviser financial planning tools exclusively for Professional Adviser.

Plum Software has launched a checklist designed to help advisers considering upgrading their client management software.

Skandia has added pensions to its re-named platform price comparison tool, Platformwatch.

Sesame has stressed it sees platforms as "very important" to the future of retail distribution as the final details on a takeover of support services provider Bankhall are hammered out.

The Selestia and Skandia platforms have now been rebranded as Skandia Investment Solutions, two years after their integration, but there is no end in sight for the full migration of billions of pounds of MultiFunds legacy business.

The Platforum has launched a new service allowing advisers to rate and review the platforms they use.

Ecclesiastical Investment Management has added six funds to Cofunds.

Iveagh, the Guinness family office and private investment house, is to move its Iveagh Wealth fund to daily dealing with effect from 1 August 2009.

Standard Life will abolish paper commission statements for advisers as it rolls out a replacement service online.

Nucleus has added 11 funds in Vanguard's UK range to the IFA-owned platform.