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Platforms' financial strength may be winning headline space, but not all advisers will rank provider profits in the same way. Here, the lang cat's Terry Huddart offers ten areas of business performance advisers might wish to look at as part of their platform...
10 November 2015
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Price and proposition pressures weigh on platforms, but do retirement reforms offer hope?
22 October 2015
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An award for the direct platform offering the most transparent and plain-English charges, terms and conditions has no recipient for the second year running.
30 July 2015
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Average investors have seen their platform costs tumble by almost a fifth in the last five years, according to research by the lang cat, but advisers are not favouring the cheaper options.
13 July 2015
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Legal & General's decision to invite offers for Cofunds just two years after it bought the platform is fraught with a number of potential pitfalls, according to industry commentators.
24 June 2015
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Regulation
The lifetime allowance "has outlived its usefulness" and should be scrapped as part of a wider overhaul of pension taxation, Tom McPhail has said.
05 June 2015
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Asset Allocation
Advisers are not asking the right questions when doing due diligence on discretionary fund managers (DFM), one such firm has said, in response to criticism it is "impossible" to compare their costs and services.
29 January 2015
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Multi-manager
Advisers are being exposed to accusations of negligent advice by the regulator because comparing charges for the most common outsourced investment options - multi-manager (MM) and discretionary fund managers (DFMs) - is "impossible", according to a damning...
21 January 2015
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Wrap/platforms
Investors wishing to move from direct-to-consumer to adviser platforms face "punitive" exit fees, according to analysis by the lang cat.
18 November 2014
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