Platforms: the £110bn question

Industry stakeholders including Aviva and TISA join advisers in debating the future of platforms.

Until recently, the FSA had been uncharacteristically quiet on platforms, even as their numbers and influence grew.

Now, it estimates about £110bn worth of assets are administered through platforms.

Earlier this year, it launched a discussion paper in a bid to collect opinion on controversial issues including re-registration, fund manager rebates, bundled charging and using more than one platform.

Professional Adviser, in association with Aviva, recently locked in a room some of the brightest minds in the industry to debate the paper's proposals.

To name just a few of them: Aviva's Malcolm Goodwin and Nicholas Burton, head of business development and head of wrap marketing respectively, TISA's Malcolm Small and Helm Godfrey operations director Graham Cross.

You can listen to the debate to hear the very latest thinking on platforms. Click HERE.