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PLATFORMS ARE DEAD: STATE OF THE PLATFORM NATION

'PLATFORMS ARE DEAD: STATE OF THE PLATFORM NATION.' This is the lang cat's guide to the important stuff going on in the advised platform market right now.

September 2015

It doesn’t seem a year since we were last here does it? But it was and ‘with predictable regularity’ here we are again with ‘PLATFORMS ARE DEAD: STATE OF THE PLATFORM NATION.’ This is the lang cat’s guide to the important stuff going on in the advised platform market right now. And there’s a lot of it, as you would expect.

Highlights include:

  • The ways in which we reckon platforms are dead.
  • Six months on from pension freedoms, how much has the world of drawdown really changed?
  • An unpacking of the changing regulatory landscape, flat-pack stylee, without ‘too many’ bits left over.
  • The three laws of what isn’t really robo-advice, but that’s what everyone keeps calling it anyway.
  • Our #heatmaps and pricing analysis. But with extras!
  • A long overdue introduction to Platform Gran and our totally revamped and upgraded PEE-WI (that’s Provider Enhanced Emotional Wellbeing Index for the uninitiated).

And as if that wasn’t enough you’ll get quarterly updates winging their way to your inbox, oh, every twelve weeks or so.

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