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04 May The Morning Briefing: Boutique firm denies Woodford ties and FOS staffing costs
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12 Aug An Olympic 2nd quarter for the platform industry
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The UK platform industry followed up a great first quarter of 2021 with a second one of Olympic-style proportions and yet another clutch of records. With restrictions easing and consumers spending more, a robust recovery was to be expected. Markets didn’t disappoint — the FTSE All Share rose by 5% in the three months to June, while platform industry assets grew by 6.5% to £865.8bn.
26 Feb Finscape announces Ascentric as latest platform to supply data
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Investment distribution specialist Finscape today announced Ascentric, part of M&G PLC, as the latest (12th) addition to the line-up of platforms supplying distribution data to its recently launched investment distribution intelligence service. Ascentric has been a participant in the design of Finscape, but the agreement to supply data was delayed by the sale of the platform to M&G in 2020.
13 Aug ‘Dead cat bounce’ for platforms?
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Platforms recovered most of the ground lost in the first quarter of the year with...
14 May The calm before the storm – Q120 platform press release
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A high viral load sent stock markets around the world into shock in March. As a result, there was a collective contraction in platform assets of £78bn to £633bn, an 11% drop, although this was considerably better than the ~ 25% fall suffered by stock markets worldwide.
22 Mar Commoditisaton of the platform sector is ‘almost inevitable’
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Bella Caridade-Ferreira explores the increasing 'commoditisation' of the platform space and what it means...
18 Mar ‘Bloodletting experience’ to come in 2020
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Last year was tough for platforms and now it seems 2020 is set to be...
17 Mar Platforms face difficult year
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Aviva’s adviser platform had ‘exceptionally strong’ flows in the last quarter of 2019 after it...
16 Mar Leading platforms in 2019
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This is the second press release on the platform industry in 2019. The February press release covered platform industry highlights for 2019. this press release is about individual platform performance.
12 Feb Platform industry net sales figure ‘worst since 2013’
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The platform industry saw net sales of £29.7bn in 2019 – the “worst” net sales...