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An advanced investment platform has become an essential tool in today's retirement planning market, says Alastair Conway

Whoever said pensions had gotten simpler clearly doesn't advise on them for a living. Even after A-Day and the very welcome simplification it brought about, pension-planning remains a complex activity with a high reporting and suitability/TCF burden and an infinite number of appropriate investment solutions. That's why it's hard, in our view, to see how any adviser wanting to build a scaleable, efficient and profitable pension-planning business can do so without the support of a robust and technologically advanced investment platform. Now that platforms are evolving from pure fund super...

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