Technology

Mark Polson explores Novia's Report Zone

Prudential is planning to move into the platform space as part of a drive to diversify its business, the company has told analysts.

Financial advisers are being invited to vote for the platforms they believe over-deliver (or at the very least properly deliver) on service.

You can’t put the (social media) genie back in the bottle

Aegon UK has said that it estimates the charge caps for auto-enrolment business will cost it between £20m to £25m a year, as it reported a 30% rise in pre-tax earnings for the second quarter.

Hargreaves Lansdown is reducing the minimum investment required to open an account from £500 to £100 in a bid to entice low-value clients.

Nearly half of advisers already have the majority of their recurring revenue coming from fees, according to a FundsNetwork survey, with less than two years to go until the April 2016 deadline where all on-platform assets need to be moved to clean share...

Standard Life has called for platforms with super clean deals to house alternative share classes in order to aid re-registration.

Platform sales reached a new record in the second quarter, according to a Fundscape report which pointed to Budget reforms as a key driver of the surge in interest.

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