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.
Platforms
Standard Life has called for platforms with super clean deals to house alternative share classes in order to aid re-registration.
11 August 2014
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Platforms
Transact has appointed Goldman Sachs to broker a full sale of the business, with senior staff open to an exit if a takeover is agreed, Investment Week understands.
28 July 2014
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Investment
The use of super clean share classes by certain platforms is starting to cause 'unintended restrictions' for clients trying to re-register to alternative platforms.
28 July 2014
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Platforms
Cofunds, has appointed former FNZ UK chief executive Paul McMahon as strategy director.
09 June 2014
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Bonds
Kames Capital CEO Martin Davis talks to Anna Fedorova about Scottish independence, rebranding, and the group's plans to diversify away from the fixed income space.
30 May 2014
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Platforms
Cofunds' chief executive David Hobbs has told Investment Week the platform has not written off plans to introduce investment trusts to the platform, and may look to include them in future.
07 April 2014
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Platforms
Cofunds' pre-tax profits for 2013 have fallen 16% after a rise in assets under administration was offset by L&G's attempt to reverse 'years of under-investment'.
01 April 2014
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Platforms
Cofunds has made a number of appointments to its partnerships and platform teams as part of a recruitment drive.
17 February 2014
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