Aegon completes first Cofunds client integration

79,000 non-advised customers moved

Tom Ellis
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Aegon has revealed its first phase of integrating Cofunds with its Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC) platform was completed successfully over the Christmas holidays.

It said 79,000 customers, predominantly from building societies, have been moved from the old Cofunds platform to the new, combined Cofunds and Aegon platform Investor Portfolio Service. Aegon said the new platform "provides a slicker and more modern service for customers with less paper and better online access enabled for mobile and tablet devices". Now its first phase is complete it plans to "soft launch" the new retail platform with a small number of Cofunds firms for new business only in January. It will then move more customers to the new platform later on in the year in May ...

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