Listings, life company swaps and PE pouncing: All the platform deals of the last five years

Platform market moves

Sophie King
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From AIM listings, life company trades and a number of private equity houses getting in on the action, Professional Adviser has rounded up all the adviser platform moves of the last five years into a neat timeline.

Hot on the heels of the latest private equity platform market deal, that of Parmenion's sale on Tuesday afternoon (9 March), PA takes a step back to the beginning of the sector's dramatic overhaul.  Starting with Standard Life's decision to buy Elevate back in May 2016, through to the triple listing of 2018 and right to the latest James Hay/Nucleus tie-up. Here are all the highlights from platform-land's M&A. May 2016 - Standard Life buys Axa Elevate First on the agenda is a Standard Life deal and, no, not the one announced earlier on Tuesday. Back in 2016, almost five years ago, St...

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