Platform review: Why Aegon is making plenty of noise...

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Last month, Aegon launched its wrap platform, ARC (Aegon Retirement Choices), to much acclaim. Here, Mark Loosmore of IRESS gives his verdict…

Aegon is a late entrant into the wrap market and is therefore playing catch up with some of its bigger rivals. To address this, it has come up with a couple of interesting strategies. Firstly, It has decided to focus on the ‘at retirement’ space (a corporate proposition is planned to follow next year). This focus means functionality and wrappers can be targeted carefully, reducing time to market and cost of delivery. It has also decided to work with an existing platform, Novia, together with an experienced and highly flexible underlying technology solution, Composer, from GBST. These ...

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