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Bill Vasilieff, sales and marketing director at Selestia, believes the role of the old style life company is dead and the future lies with fund supermarkets. He predicts the wrap market will quickly grow in the UK once demand catches up with the supply

For the financial services industry - the world is changing. There are providers who have disappeared, who, on re-examining their business strategy have concluded there is no place for them in the new world. The businesses that will survive need to ensure they re-engineer themselves to fit the new world. An example of this might be a fund manager who has given up on mass client administration and instead chooses to focus on fund management - thus leaving client administration and the retail distribution to the fund supermarkets. There is little doubt that there is considerable space in t...

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