The Aberdeen UK Platform Awards dinner is the only event dedicated to excellence and achievement in the investment platform sector. All platform providers will be there, all hoping to win a prestigious award.

If you are an adviser and you use platforms, we want your opinion. After all, you have carried out due diligence, you have made your selection and you now have the most valuable commodity of all - user experience!

Last week’s email on the ongoing rebate debate provoked some interesting feedback and we received some good points from Vanguard’s Head of Retail, Peter Robertson, which we share with you below. Thank you to Peter for his contribution.

Being in the minority on an argument is often the result of seeing something different rather than seeing the same things differently. The current rebate debate is a case in point.

Legal firm Pinsenst Mason's have produced some useful platform and RDR articles on their free legal-advice website, www.out-law.com

To support the launch of Synaptic Comparator from Capita Financial Software, a series of adviser briefings will take place throughout the UK in June and July. Each event will be hosted by leading platform providers and national advisory networks to introduce the new tool to the marketplace.