FE was named Best Independent Planning Tool Provider for the third year running at the annual Aberdeen UK Platform Awards held last night. The accolade recognises the planning tool that advisers most value in support of their proposition as voted for by the advisers themselves, with some 1,500 registering their choice.The eighth Aberdeen UK Platform Awards, held the Park Lane Hilton in London, highlighted excellence and success across the UK platform sector. The Independent Planning Tool Provider category was open to any business that offers an end-to-end solution or a planning tool for one or more links in the advice chain.
FE is a leader in the provision of investment research, data and software tools to the financial services industry. FE Analytics in particular combines data on over 300,000 global investment instruments with deep research and analysis, risk-profiling and portfolio management and is highly-rated by IFAs.
This latest award follows a string of accolades: in July this year, FE Research won the Proposition Development (discretionary fund management/wealth management) Award at Incisive Media’s inaugural Investment Marketing and Innovation Awards and last month FE was highly commended in the Best Fund Rating and Research Service category at Investment Week’s Fund Services Awards.
Mika-John Southworth, Marketing Director at FE, said: “The financial advisory community faces a range of challenges as it adapts to differing client models and a changing regulatory environment. FE has always placed an emphasis on delivering tools and services that alleviate these pressures whilst at the same time helping advisers make more informed decisions on behalf of their clients. In this light, we take great pride in FE being named the Best Independent Planning Tool Provider by popular choice among those we aim to help – the advisers themselves – at the most prestigious awards ceremony in this sector. To win in this category three years in a row is a tremendous honor. Our thanks go to all our customers who voted for us.”
