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08 Aug

Posted at 16:52h in
The trading environment in the second quarter provided no respite from the headwinds that have been pummelling the direct platform market. Platforms have been helped by modest market gains, meaning the majority were able to post positive asset growth. Gross flows were a comfortable £11.4bn for the quarter, but the all-important net figure was in the doldrums at £3.9bn as investors adjusted to higher living costs and prioritised cash products.

12 Feb

Posted at 11:39h in
The PLATORM INDUSTRY is in extended lockdown as several public limited companies will be reporting their full-year results between now and 17th March 2020. We’re unable to provide individual platform data until the last PLC has reported its results. As a result, this is the first of two press releases for Q419 /2019 platform data.

20 Aug

Posted at 07:00h in
After significant falls in Q1, stock markets began to level out at the end of March... just in time for the last two weeks of the ISA season. By the close of Q218, the UK stock market had recovered most of its lost ground, with the FTSE 100 and FTSE All Share rebounding by 8% and performing better than most major stock markets in Q2.

13 Feb

Posted at 12:04h in
The PLATFORM INDUSTRY is in extended lockdown phase because several platforms will not report their full-year results to the stock market until mid-March, a full month after the usual scheduled publication date of the Fundscape Platform Report. As a result, Fundscape is releasing headline figures and industry highlights for 2017.  The full report will be released in March once all PLC-owned platforms have published their results.

16 Nov

Posted at 08:00h in
Download the full press release here. Following the EU referendum, the FTSE 100 and the FTSE All-Share indices rocketed by 6% and 7% in the third quarter of the year, on top of the growth already experienced in late June. Against this backdrop, according to the Fundscape Platform Report, platform assets rose 9% from £432bn to £469bn by end September 2016.  Since the start of the year, UK platform industry assets have increased by £67bn, an increase of 17%.