Tech review: Software designed by an IFA? Whatever next…

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Over the last few months in this column, I've looked at a wide range of software gizmos designed to help advisers.

From investment profiling systems to risk appetite apps to who-knows-what, they mainly have one thing in common – they are designed by specialist software houses or large providers and have had significant amounts of money spent on them. This week’s subject is a bit different. Benefit Hub is a benefits system designed by an IFA, specifically Mearns & Co in Edinburgh. Mearns has teamed up with a small web design company called [codepotato], based in Hampshire. Its proprietor, Gareth Thompson, is known to the IFA Twitterati as @cssgareth and has designed websites for a number of planner...

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