Platform assets reached a record high in 2025 hitting £1.3trn, recording the largest single-year gain in the industry’s history, at £178bn.

There were record gross sales and outflows for advised platforms in the last quarter of 2025.

Aviva was the most recommended adviser platform in 2025, followed closely by Quilter, according to a new report.

Hargreaves Lansdown has reduced its fees for the first time in a decade, in a move which is claims will see half of its clients pay less.

Fourth quarter core net inflows increased 21% year on year to £2.4bn at wealth manager and Financial Planner Quilter, representing 7% of opening assets under management.

Adviser platform Transact is to reduce costs for more family members from 1 April.

Cash and bond funds were less popular with investors on Fidelity’s Personal Investing platform in December amid signs investors may be shifting towards investing rather than hold cash.

IntegraFin Holdings, the parent company of adviser platform Transact, has today reported full year profits up 7% to £75.4m thanks to strong growth in earnings.

Advised platform customers rose 6% for AJ Bell to 182,000 (2024: 171,000) for the year ended 30 September.

The number of advisers complaining that poor service from platforms is significantly affecting their business, has fallen dramatically.

Adviser platforms had their strongest third quarter net sales figures since 2022 - hitting £756bn, according to new research.

Quilter’s £23bn AUM WealthSelect Managed Portfolio Service (MPS) has been added to the Transact platform allowing advisers to choose from a range of 56 new portfolios.

Net inflows at adviser platforms rose 12% to £5.06bn in Q3 despite outflows rising to new highs of £17.94bn, according to new data.

Private bank Weatherbys, which has a history dating back 240 years, has launched a new execution-only platform for clients with trading fees from 0.01%.

Core net inflows rose 28% year-on-year to £2.2bn at wealth manager and Financial Planner Quilter in the third quarter of the year.

Funds under direction for adviser platform Transact rose 16% over the past year to a new record high of £74.2bn as at 30 September (30 September 2024: £64.1bn).

AJ Bell has added a new set of planning tools to its Investcentre platform.

Three in five (60%) of UK savers avoid investing because the see it as ‘too risky’, according to a new report.

ISA provider The Children’s ISA (TCI) has migrated its 126,000 ISA and Junior ISA accounts away from Embark to white label platform provider Quai Digital.

Advised platform AUM climbed 4.36% in the second quarter to £671.39bn, according to new data.