FTAdviser latest:RDR update: FSA to review use of platforms

Story by: Emma Ann Hughes, Financial Adviser

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has asked for feedback on whether it should shake-up up the way it regulates wraps and fund supermarkets.

  • Time published: 13:08
  • Date published: 25.06.2009
  • Published in: Regulation

Zurich accused of "panicking" IFAs' clients

IFAs have reacted furiously after Zurich sent a letter to clients invested in Sterling/New Star insurance funds, advising them to switch out of these funds amid concerns over their performance.

  • Date published: 19.06.2009

Philip Martin steps down as BD director at Nucleus

Philip Martin is to step down from his role as business development director at Nucleus.

  • Date published: 17.06.2009

Aegon considers entering the wrap market

Aegon has indicted that it is looking to enter the wrap market, but did not give a timeline for when such a move could happen.

  • Date published: 17.06.2009

Transact and Nucleus score high in CoreData research

Nucleus voted best small platform and Transact rated highly on ease of use

  • Date published: 15.06.2009

Nucleus and Transact wrap up poll victory

Transact and Nucleus are the two most highly rated platforms by IFAs, according to a CoreData Research poll.

  • Date published: 11.06.2009

Ascentric teams with iShares for ETF masterclasses

Independent wrap platform Ascentric has teamed with iShares to offer ETF masterclasses for intermediaries.

  • Date published: 08.06.2009

Ascentric boosts marketing strength

Ascentric has appointed three new business-development managers to help market the growing wrap platform to IFAs.

  • Date published: 01.06.2009

LVAM steps up platform drive

LV= Asset Management (LVAM) has begun its distribution roll out on wrap platforms, launching five funds with Novia Financial.

  • Date published: 19.05.2009

Skandia platform sales rocket, as Old Mutual suffers slump

Old Mutual has revealed a 25 per cent fall in group life sales during the first quarter of the year, having fallen to £316m, down from £423m in the corresponding period last year.

  • Date published: 07.05.2009

Features

Analyst: Way Group

Way Group sales and marketing director Eddie O'Gorman talks to Stephen Wilmot about building the company's service infrastructure

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 15.06.2009

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LVAM steps up platform drive

Society's retail arm beefs up distribution

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 01.06.2009

Features

We are going through the painful correction, before it gets back to a better world

7IM chief executive Tom Sheridan speaks to Girlie Garduce about the positives of platforms and why the ambition for a product advice culture undertaken by the retail distribution review is a sewn into the industry.

  • Time published: 00:01
  • Date published: 19.03.2009

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