Standard Life's retail platform assets rose 26% in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period in 2011, as the group added an extra 41 adviser firms on its wrap.
Cofunds has reported a 10% dip in profits for last year, citing investment in retail distribution review (RDR) readiness as the reason for the drop.
Mixed Investment Shares were popular with advisers once again in March, according to the latest sales trends on platform Cofunds.
Skandia UK has launched what it calls a "risk discussion" app allowing advisers to assess a client's attitude to risk in a single meeting.
An adviser has hit out at platform FundsNetwork for refusing to re-register a client's investments to a rival platform because the value of the transfer was less than £40,000.
Nucleus has appointed Faith Liversedge to the newly-created position of IFA communications manager.
Wrap platform Nucleus has turned a quarterly profit for the first time.
Jaki Platt, the head of retail platform distribution at Zurich Financial Services, has left the company for personal reasons.