by Mariam Pourshoushtari | 23 June 2023 | UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution
Advisers continue place more of their business with discretionary investment solutions. This trend has followed the gradual decline in individual advisers selecting funds for their clients – especially single-strategy funds, according to our latest research UK...
by Richard Bradley | 17 March 2023 | UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution
Many of financial advisers’ clients in retirement – pretty much all their richest ones – regard their DC pensions as inheritance tax plans and only plan to draw on them as a last resort, according to Platforum’s findings in our recent report on decumulation advice. DC...
by George Shore | 06 January 2023 | UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C, UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution, UK Wealth Management
We saw a spike in the proportion of UK adults investing through 2020-2021, as household savings soared in the pandemic and fed through to investments. Unfortunately, 2022 painted a different picture, according to our latest UK Consumer Insights report, published...
by Richard Bradley | 21 October 2022 | UK Financial Advisers
UK financial advisers have served steadily increasing numbers of ongoing clients in recent years, with each adviser now having an average of 115 ongoing clients – up from only 86 in 2016, according to FCA data. Some of this growth is because advisers have been...
by Richard Bradley | 04 March 2022 | UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution
We have seen a steady evolution in UK financial advisers’ propositions since pension freedoms with a tightening up of processes for clients in decumulation. This has included more cash flow planning, and greater emphasis on performing fuller and more proactive annual...
by Mariam Pourshoushtari | 03 December 2021 | UK Financial Advisers
What tech set-up would financial advisers ideally want if they could start again with a clean slate and no legacy systems? That was the hypothetical question we asked for Platforum’s latest report, UK Financial Advisers: Planning Tools and Systems. We gave them four...
