Skandia

Skandia's Trailblazer roadshow will hit the road again this September, offering free events to help IFAs bring long-term value to their businesses and prepare for the changing regulatory environment.

Skandia has added pensions to its re-named platform price comparison tool, Platformwatch.

Sesame has stressed it sees platforms as "very important" to the future of retail distribution as the final details on a takeover of support services provider Bankhall are hammered out.

The Selestia and Skandia platforms have now been rebranded as Skandia Investment Solutions, two years after their integration, but there is no end in sight for the full migration of billions of pounds of MultiFunds legacy business.

Skandia's platform sales have bolstered Old Mutual's interim results in the UK with total net inflows of £0.4bn.

A recent press release from Skandia UK, a fund management and wrap platform provider, claimed that while ETFs tout their low costs, a straight comparison with mutual funds of total expense ratios (TERs) can be misleading.

Hundreds of advisers' clients have failed to make any plans to combat their IHT liability, leaving them vulnerable to a 40% tax hit, research suggests.

Skandia says proposals to ensure provider firms intervene in cases of ‘extreme' adviser charges go against the principles of the RDR.

Following Skandia's u-turn on platform-to-platform re-registration I will forever remember June 2009 as the month in which some real clarity emerged.

The Government could withdraw tax relief for more than 3 million pensions savers to plug its budget black hole, Skandia says.