In an exciting World Exclusive (oh come on – if you don’t blow your own trumpet, who else will!) The Platforum can announce that IFA platform assets rose to £91.7bn as at 31 December 2009, representing a rise of 7.9% for the quarter. Not quite the meteoric rises we have seen over some quarters but (to use a very crude metric as a benchmark) with a FTSE rise of some 5%, it’s still a respectable growth figure for a Christmas quarter where we know most people packed up shop mid-December in the snow and general exhaustion of a tough year!

The popular PAT has succumbed to vanity and is currently in a Swiss clinic undergoing some extensive cosmetic surgery. Any subscriber wanting to access the detail included in the Platform Analysis Tool which provides data, facts and figures on some 12 leading IFA platforms can visit
We held a stochastic modelling seminar in October 2009 to debate and review the topic: