by Mariam Pourshoushtari | 20 September 2019 | UK Financial Advisers
Advisers are increasingly making use of third-party risk profiling tools, with over 70% of adviser firms now telling us at Platforum that they use them. But how they use these planning tools varies greatly from firm to firm, as we found in Harrogate at our most recent...
by Mariam Pourshoushtari | 06 September 2019 | UK Financial Advisers
Over 90% of UK adviser firms have changed their approach to adviser charging in the last two years, according to our survey for the latest Platforum report – UK Adviser Market: Costs and Charges. The most glaring trend is towards cutting charges for higher value...
by Ross Langbridge | 26 July 2019 | UK Adviser Platforms, UK D2C, UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution, UK Wealth Management
Age is not just a number, it is one of the most defining variables in British investors’ decision making. Understanding what drives consumers to make choices about investment services and products is critical for firms when developing distribution and marketing...
by Richard Bradley | 19 July 2019 | UK Financial Advisers, UK Fund Distribution
Pre-RDR, much of the ‘power’ in the market was held by asset managers: they charged the fees and remunerated advisers/platforms via rebates/commission. The RDR flipped this on its head. Now it is the advisers who are firmly in control, setting fees and choosing – or...
by Mariam Pourshoushtari | 12 July 2019 | UK Financial Advisers
Recruiting advisers and other experienced staff ranks as one of the biggest challenges that advice businesses now face, according to many of the owners and managers of advice firms we have spoken to in our research at Platforum. In fact, we discovered that half of...
by Richard Bradley | 24 May 2019 | UK Financial Advisers
The debate around how to generate sustainable retirement income has continued to rage this week. Pre-pension freedoms, this problem hardly existed: the requirement of a base level of guaranteed income before accessing flexible drawdown effectively excluded all but the...
