David Ferguson: Where now for platforms?

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Firstly I'd like to wish you all a very happy New Year. It hardly seems like a few hours since the end of the last Millennium, but already we are into its second decade.

I'm not sure how one might characterise the 'noughties but I'm guessing they will be most remembered for the nonsense of Y2K, the rise of terrorism against the west, extraordinarily appalling television and the financial meltdown. Here's hoping the 'teenies' might fare a little better. From Nucleus' perspective, 2009 was a wonderful year, despite all of the doom and gloom surrounding our sector. We managed to grow our year-end assets by 130% and our revenue by about 140%. I'm not sure we can keep growing our turnover by an average of nearly 7% per month (we were helped by the market reco...

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