How to use platforms for retirement planning

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There are some fascinating and revealing numbers starting to emerge for the use of platforms.

I subscribe to the rather excellent ADVISER (plat)FORM guide from Platforum, as I suspect many pension providers do. The recent research from Unbiased.co.uk supported findings that platforms are not only here to stay, they are growing and they want more of the market. And to do so, they are investing in technology. Platforms need pensions In truth, pension providers and platforms increasingly need each other. Pension providers want access to the increasingly adviser-centric technology that platforms are delivering, and platforms want the assets under administration. Both want each othe...

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