Cofunds
Aegon fundmarket platform
Cofunds is a fundmarket that provides investment platform services in the UK. The company's product options include bond, pension, collectives and cash services. It also provides consolidation, investor administration, online investor, intermediary and integration services.
The company, which is based in London, was bought by Aegon, the pensions, life insurance and asset management business, from former owner Legal & General in 2016.
Aegon is working towards integrating the platform with Aegon Retirement Choices (ARC), bringing many of Cofunds' features into ARC.
Managed funds
Pictet Asset Management is aiming to "create noise" with its first onshore product for UK investors, a lower cost multi-asset fund for Percival Stanion and team.
24 June 2015
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Wealth Management
Sanlam Private Wealth has hired Distribution Technology's Rob McDonnell as head of business development.
17 June 2015
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Platforms
Legal & General is understood to be considering a sale of its Cofunds platform, just over two years after it sealed a deal to take full ownership.
15 June 2015
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Platforms
Stephen Mohan, UK director at Europe's largest platform group Allfunds Bank, is set to leave the firm, Investment Week understands.
11 June 2015
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Platforms
A "combination of politics and pensions" contributed to slower sales across platforms in the first three months of the year, with the year-on-year (YOY) asset growth rate also receding, according to research.
15 May 2015
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Platforms
The chief executive of UK platform giant Cofunds has acknowledged the business "should be generating more profit" despite an 83% increase in 2014 figures reversing a previous downwards trend.
27 March 2015
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Platforms
Platform inflows reached record highs in the fourth quarter of 2014 as upcoming pension freedoms and demand for income boosted inflows, according to Fundscape.
10 March 2015
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1 min read
Platforms
Legal & General has said it must "operationally leverage" its Cofunds platform and boost flows into its asset management arm this year in order to improve its business mix.
04 March 2015
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Investment Trusts
Ascentric's managing director, Hugo Thorman, has argued advisers' use of model portfolios is hindering the popularity of investment trusts.
10 December 2014
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2 min read
