16 May 2019 Aviva on road to recovery
Fundscape's analysis of platform performance in the first quarter of 2019 should make for encouraging reading for AJ Bell, Aviva and Transact, but some of the chasing pack appears stagnant....
// Transact
14 May 2019 Nucleus launches portal as investors seek direct access to portfolios
Nucleus Go provides access to information such as money paid in, withdrawals, fund switches, holdings, gains and losses, as well as more detailed investment analysis over...
13 May 2019 Poor start to 2019 for platforms
THERE MAY BE PROBLEMS AHEAD… By the end of March 2019, stock markets had recovered from the severe whipping they’d received in the last quarter of 2018. All major markets were home to stellar growth, with even the FTSE All Share rising by 8.3% despite Brexit concerns. The upturn pushed UK platform assets up 7.3% to £637bn, a vast improvement on Q418, but only £4bn higher than Q318’s closing balance of £633bn. Hargreaves Lansdown, D2C platform and the UK’s largest distributor, moved into pole position as the UK’s largest investment platform.
24 Apr 2019 Transact assets grow 15% against uncertain backdrop
Transact parent company Integrafin reported its fund under direction (FUD) grew 15.7% year-on-year, despite an uncertain backdrop in Q1 2019. In the three months to 31 March 2019...
19 Mar 2019 Was platform dominance broken in 2018?
2018 was a tough year for the adviser platform sector as a whole but, amid the general suffering, are net-flow figures suggesting a shift in the balance of power among the most popular players?...
19 Mar 2019 Brexit, brinkmanship and pensions
It’s been a tough year for fund groups and platforms alike with Brexit and other worries cooling the markets. Initially, platforms were cushioned from the worst by ongoing DB transfer business, but by the second half of the year that business was also drying up. Year-on-year asset growth was a meagre 4%, while gross and net sales have plummeted. The economics are relatively unchanged, but investors have been spooked by Brexit and US-China trade wars. For full press release click here.
07 Mar 2019 Are Aviva’s platform flows as bad as they look?
Aviva's net platform flows were revealed to be 38% down year-on-year in the group's annual results this morning. Yet, after a slow 2018 in the platform market, are the group's troubles as bad as...
12 Nov 2018 BREXIT WEIGHS ON INVESTOR SENTIMENT IN THIRD QUARTER
In July the UK government finally agreed an exit strategy with the EU and the outlook began to look rosier. But as the quarter wore on, resignations and vocal criticism abounded dampening investor sentiment and sending stock markets into the red — the FTSE 100 and the FTSE All Share indices fell by 1.8% in the quarter. Download the release here.
20 Aug 2018 Sluggish ISA sales and soft Q218 for platforms
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.- 1
- 2
SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER
Want to be kept informed of Fundscape news, views and developments? sign up to our newsletter.