Our regular round-up of the latest insights on investment distribution

We all get swept away at awards dinners and are more likely to remember who won than why. Given that even The Great British Bake Off has a post-match analysis programme (An Extra Slice), perhaps we need one for industry awards. With this in mind, the Platforum...

Some Bank of England officials know that they can retire on their 60th birthday with a pension income touching £100k. Not the case for most of us. Do you know when you will retire? Do you expect to work into retirement? Do you know what income you will have in...

Adviser platform assets reached £378bn at the end of Q2 and our latest UK Adviser Guide, published this week, details a sector with as many moving part as ever. We’re seeing the impact of the pension freedoms driving new assets onto platform which is making up 77%...

At Platforum, we are often asked whether we believe assets on retail adviser platforms will continue to grow. The simple answer is “yes”. The most important reason is rising stock market prices. But some people tell us that they suspect that the proportion of...

Every quarter, as part of the Adviser Platform Guide, Platforum takes the temperature on what advisers really think of platforms. A number of issues have been getting advisers’ goats but there are some gold stars in areas where platforms are getting it right (or in...

It's a little known fact that the Swedes lead Europe – and probably the world – when it comes to the proportion of the population that puts their money in equities and other risk based investments. We think the Brits are pretty high up the scale, with some 28% of...