Platforms

Measure up: The myriad ways advisers benchmark client portfolios

Friend or foe: Can platforms really help advisers with asset migration?

The vast majority of advisers have faith they will adapt successfully to a world without trail commission, but one in ten say it could mean they cease trading, according to a survey.

The changes to pension provision announced in the Budget are far reaching. But in order to access a fragmented pensions market, advisers need to give equal importance to the underlying solution, as well as the method of delivery according to Harry Kerr....

Provider Aviva has dropped the £100 a year drawdown charge on its platform.

The Fastrak to efficiency?

Provider Aviva's platform is on course to achieve profitability in 2016 and its target of £6bn in assets under management (AUM) by the end of this year, after its AUM has doubled in the last 12 months.

How the platform price war is affecting advisers

Zurich is not interested in participating in a platform price "race to the bottom", its head of retail platform strategy has said.

Into the sunset: Five preparations for the big switch-off