Platform asset growth continues but outflows 'hit new highs'

Advised platform Q1 outflows increased to £16.25bn

Isabel Baxter
clock • 2 min read

Platform asset growth continued the momentum gained in positive markets in Q4 2023 into the first three months of 2024, but outflows have “hit new highs,” The Lang Cat has found.

All channel and advised quarterly growth figures of 10.41% and 11.75% are largely due to Nucleus combined reporting of numbers of James Hay and Nucleus platforms and adding the Curtis Banks book, The Lang Cat noted. Like-for-like comparisons would show all channel and advised quarterly growth of 4.68% and 4.38% respectively.  Gross sales in the advised channel were the fifth highest on record. Numbers like these have not been seen since the height of defined benefit transfer activity in 2017 and 2018 and the record-breaking year of 2021, The Lang Cat noted, where pent up cash from the...

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