The number of platforms targeting advisory firms is likely to halve after 2017, according to Standard Life's David Tiller.
HSBC Global Asset Management's chief executive Andy Clark is ruling out introducing preferentially priced share classes, saying they are akin to "endorsements" of individual platforms.
Fidelity UK Personal Investing head Mark Till has left the company after three years in the role, Investment Week can reveal.
Capacity crunch for platforms?
Standard Life Investments' chief executive Keith Skeoch was paid £5.2m in 2014 as the business' AUM jumped by 45% last year.
Assets under administration at Standard Life's wrap platform rose by 26% last year to move above £20bn for the first time, the firm has said.
Standard Life has bought advice firm Pearson Jones from Skipton Building Society as it moves to capitalise on the demand for pensions advice.
Standard Life Wrap has partnered with eight discretionary firms in a bid to enhance the service it offers advisers facing up to pension freedom challenges.
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South-African firm Fundhouse has launched a fund ratings service for UK financial advisers, offering what it says are wholly unbiased and impartial comments on well-known funds.