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!