Nucleus and Transact were the big winners at the 2016 Schroders UK Platform Awards, in association with Professional Adviser, with the former named 2016 Platform of the year and the latter Platform of the decade.
Nucleus also picked up awards for Best investment management platform proposition and Leading innovation as well as being named runner-up as Platform of the decade. The group's business development director Barry Neilson said: "Much as we are delighted to have won our awards, we are also delighted to see Transact acknowledged for the key role they have played in the evolution of the platform market." Commenting on the awards as a whole, Neilson identified a "massive trend" towards recognising platforms that set out to work closely with advisers. "There is a huge gulf between platfo...
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