Better Business: The wrap scrap

In the month in which Muhammad Ali visited Ireland to rediscover his ancestral roots it seems the retail financial services industry may be set for a bit of a trip back in time. Pretty much like any period in the last three or four years, the past few weeks in platform-land have fascinated me. Alongside what looks like a subtle repositioning of Axa's Elevate, Friends Provident finally confirmed the long anticipated news that it was about to embark on the development of a corporate wrap. I guess the bottom line is that thus far, Standard Life is the only mainstream UK insurer to make a...