Tech review: More data than you can possibly imagine

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Professional Adviser's resident tech guru Mark Polson reviews Fastrak, the new service from Sprint Enterprise Technology, which could make the job of building client reports far easier...

A bit of research last year from JP Morgan showed that clients would pay on average £351 for a financial plan, or £256 for a pensions-only effort. With the average time cost of a report at least twice that for many advisers, this is an area ripe for efficiency gains. Our subject this week thinks they have the very thing. Fastrak from Sprint Enterprise Technology is a new service designed to help advisers build portfolios, maintain and review them, and reflect them in client reports. Its founder, Gary Shepherd, told me that currently, he finds advisers using three or four different ...

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