by Victor Garcia Priego | 12 June 2020 | Europe
Fund platforms are no longer simply intermediaries linking asset managers and distributors. This is especially true of institutional platforms, which over recent years have moved far beyond their traditional role as facilitators of fund transactions and distribution...
by Victor Garcia Priego | 22 May 2020 | Europe
Institutional fund platforms have unexpectedly become a force that is set to shape the future of fund management – despite their being unlikely candidates for headlines even in the trade press. Once a mere appendix of a couple of banking groups in Europe’s periphery,...
by Richard Bradley | 28 February 2020 | Europe, UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C
There has been a significant amount of M&A in the platform market of late, in the UK and Continental Europe, across D2C and intermediaries. Here we take a quick look at just a few of the deals we’ve seen over the past year, starting in the UK. FNZ gobbles up GBST...
by Richard Bradley | 24 January 2020 | Europe
This week has seen further consolidation in the European platform market, with Clearstream acquiring a majority stake in UBS Fondcenter. When combined with Clearstream’s Fund Desk business, the new ‘Fondcenter’ platform will be the third-largest platform in...
by Platforum Team | 13 December 2019 | ESG, Europe, UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C, UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution, UK Wealth Management
All across Europe – including UK – we are seeing changes to regulation, demographics and what investors want. Firms continue to evolve their business models and the industry slowly alters course. Our last newsletter of the year covers our predictions for 2020 and...
by Richard Bradley | 22 November 2019 | Europe
We’re seeing the initial signs of a rolling back of open architecture across Europe. Distributors are increasingly focusing on building overall ‘solutions’ rather than picking best of breed funds by asset class. They are also looking to limit the range of products...
