Platform views: Terry Huddart on James Hay and Nucleus

Platform functionality highlights

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In the latest in his series cherry-picking the best elements currently on offer from all the major platforms, Terry Huddart highlights the aspects that stand out about the offerings from James Hay and Nucleus

#3 James Hay and the (no) client signatures James Hay of course developed into a platform from a SIPP heritage and it remains one of the major players in the full SIPP sector. This means straddling two markets and, let's be honest, full SIPPs are very different things from platforms. Whereas SIPPs are more about running complex assets and the attendant pension-oriented technical requirements for typically more sophisticated clients, platforms are - again, typically - more about holistic technology to serve the middle market. James Hay is not the only provider to straddle both camps ...

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