Wrap/platforms

Last year's Aberdeen UK Platform Awards dinner raised more than £22,000 for the Help for Heroes charity, organiser CWC Research has announced.

EASY MONEY

Aviva has said its retail wrap will target advisers offering restricted and simplified advice propositions as part of a wider assault on the mass market.

Skandia is launching its unbundled platform model in the fourth quarter of 2012, along with an adviser charging structure designed to accommodate different fee types.

Fidelity FundsNetwork has become the first supermarket to launch an unbundled pricing model.

BULLY

Adviser and wealth manager Ashcourt Rowan is developing its own in-house platform, due to be rolled out later this year.

Advisers will develop their own ‘virtual' platforms to avoid losing margins along the distribution chain to life companies and other parties, Prudential UK's Barry O'Dwyer has predicted.

Advisers continue to be confused by the FSA's stance on single platform use, research suggests.

With RDR almost upon us, Fiona Murphy asks how advisers are engaging with platforms in the latest Retirement Planner inquiry