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Scottish Widows Platform now live in Dynamic Planner
The Scottish Widows Platform is now live for valuations in Dynamic Planner, the UK’s leading risk based financial planning system. This new integration with the Scottish Widows Platform enables Dynamic Planner users to onboard and value new clients and existing clients in preparation for their client review or cashflow planning, and benefit from the new […]
Consumer Duty – Time to get your retirement ducks in a row
By Bordier UK The FCA has now published its final Consumer Duty rules, with a definitive implementation date set for July 2023. There is now no excuse for adviser firms to have not begun their preparations, especially given that a firm’s board (or equivalent) must have agreed and signed off on their Consumer Duty implementation […]
Garraway launches Decumulation Model Portfolio using Dynamic Planner’s Risk Managed Decumulation standards
Advisers using Dynamic Planner’s Risk Managed Decumulation Service (RMD) can now access the Garraway Decumulation Model Portfolio Service. The portfolio is the first decumulation portfolio built specifically to meet Dynamic Planner’s RMD Standard. It has been created using Dynamic Planner’s leading risk-rated portfolio guidelines and assigned a risk rating of 5. Chris Jones, Proposition Director, […]
Three big ESG questions for advisers
A conversation with Ken Rayner, CEO of RSMR As ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) becomes a major theme in investor preferences and adviser-investor conversations, the regulatory pressure also continues to build, with the FCA now fully embedding climate considerations into their remit. RSMR, whose Managed Portfolio Service (MPS) is now available in Dynamic Planner, has […]
New Dynamic Planner survey – How are advice firms working in 2020?
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Survey: Does financial advice have a positive impact at a time of crisis?
If you have ever experienced real panic, brought on without warning, it is extremely unpleasant, to say the very least. A suddenly increased heart rate. A horrible hot flush. You may quickly feel cold and begin to shake. In all, it is disorienting and difficult to focus. How do you react in that moment, under […]
Dynamic Planner Updates: December 2019
It has only been a few weeks since our last Updates post – but, already, Dynamic Planner is looking a little different! First, as you may have seen in the industry press and across on our blog, we have launched a new range of multi asset indexes in partnership with MSCI. Currently, investors and advisers […]
Dynamic Planner partners with giant MSCI to launch industry-first benchmarks
Dynamic Planner has launched a new range of Multi-Asset Indexes in partnership with MSCI – to transform the ability of investors and advisers to compare and understand the performance and risk profiles of funds and portfolios. Currently, investors and advisers are faced with a multitude of benchmarks self-selected by fund managers. The absence of a […]
Refining your fund research: How do you best invest your time?
Demonstrating the real value you add, as a professional advice firm, to clients is naturally something you are consistently keen to achieve. As their portfolios grow under your management, so do the fees they pay you. There are many ways in which you and your firm can and will successfully already do that. Professional, personalised […]
MiFID II bites into profit for advice firms
Read time: 5min Something nearly always has to give in life. Unfortunately, for UK advice firms in the wake of increasing industry regulation, it appears to be their profit. “We speak to firms all the time and anecdotally we hear that the demand for their services has never been greater and that they are doing […]