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Update 98
Issued 21 January 2021
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- 2021 Predictions
- ICYMI: AKG's Briefing Note 2 'COVID-19 Analysis Update'
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Update 97
Issued 7 January 2021
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- Publication of Briefing Note 2: COVID-19 Analysis Update
- 2020 AKG publications
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Update 96
Issued 22 December 2020
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- Merry Christmas from AKG
- 5Qs with AKG - Chris Curry on Pensions Dashboards
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Update 95
Issued 8 December 2020
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- Celebrating 10 years of AKG’s platform financial strength assessments
- A little festive cheer for with profits aficionados...
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Update 94
Issued 24 November 2020
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- Launch of AKG’s platform guide
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Update 93
Issued 4 November 2020
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- Financial Product Fashion
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Update 92
Issued 15 October 2020
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- Googling Insurance!
- Future of advice paper coverage continues
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Update 91
Issued 22 September 2020
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- FCA’s COVID-19 Business Interruption insurance test case
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Update 90
Issued 27 August 2020
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- Perspective revisited - Financial strength for customer benefit
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Update 89
Issued 13 August 2020
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- ICYMI: Future of Advice paper & Expanded platform sector coverage
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Update 88
Issued 30 July 2020
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- Download AKG’s new Future of Advice paper
- Additions to AKG's Platform Financial Strength Assessments
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Update 87
Issued 15 July 2020
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- 4th anniversary of DFM sector launch
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Update 86
Issued 22 June 2020
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- Remote assessment meetings are ‘go’
- AKG ratings added to the lang cat's new platform due diligence tool
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Update 85
Issued 4 June 2020
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- Catching up on AKG content
- DFM due diligence: Your questions answered
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Update 84
Issued 18 May 2020
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- Briefing Note: Analysis of Covid-19 Survey Responses
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Update 83
Issued 29 April 2020
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- DFM financial strength assessments
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Update 82
Issued 17 April 2020
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- AKG's Covid-19 thoughts continued...
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Update 81
Issued 24 March 2020
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- AKG Assessment of companies and how they are impacted by the Covid-19 stresses
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Update 80
Issued 12 March 2020
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- Welcome to the redesigned AKG website
- Download AKG’s With Profits Market Briefing
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Update 79
Issued 19 Feb 2020
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- Exploring equity release opportunities – Download AKG’s new research paper
- 2019 With Profits Reports Launched
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Update 78
Issued 7 Feb 2020
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- AKG launches 2019 With Profits Reports
- AKG provider ratings included in Risk Transfer Report
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Update 77
Issued 9 Jan 2020
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Update 76
Issued 11 Dec 2019
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- Celebrating 9 years of AKG’s platform ratings
- Order your copy of AKG WP Reports by 17 December to secure early bird terms
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Update 75
Issued 26 November 2019
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- Early Bird Special Offer: 2019 AKG UK Life Office With Profits Reports - £100 Off
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Update 74
Issued 7 November 2019
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- Not all insurers are the same…
- New Model Adviser Top 100 for 2019 revealed
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Update 73
Issued 10 October 2019
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- FCA reinforces ongoing SIPP operator scrutiny
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Update 72
Issued 19 September 2019
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- All roads lead to the customer – the driver for an operational company perspective
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Update 71
Issued 22 August 2019
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Update 70
Issued 31 July 2019
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- Third anniversary of AKG’s DFM sector launch
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Update 69
Issued 11 July 2019
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- MiFID II Implementation – A Work in Progress
- AKG’s Offshore Sector
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Update 68
Issued 27 June 2019
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- Publication of AKG research paper: MiFID II Implementation – A Work in Progress
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Update 67
Issued 12 June 2019
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- AKG’s Platform Sector Evolution
- Citywire UK Wealth Service Awards
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Update 66
Issued 16 May 2019
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- FCA review of the Fair Treatment of With Profits Customers
- Accessing full sets of AKG reports
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Update 65
Issued 18 April 2019
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- A sandbox – what could be simpler?
- FCA Priorities 2019/20
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Update 64
Issued 29 March 2019
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- Master trust authorisation process bringing winds of change to AE marketplace
- AKG With Profits Market Briefing
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Update 63
Issued 8 March 2019
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- AKG With Profits Market Briefing published
- Getting to know AKG’s Provider Sector
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Update 62
Issued 8 February 2019
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- AKG coverage in numbers…
- Latest AKG publications in case you missed them…
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Update 61
Issued 7 January 2019
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- A year in review – AKG articles in PFS magazine
- AKG launches 2018 With Profits Reports
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Update 60
Issued 21 December 2018
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- Merry Christmas from AKG
- AKG launches 2018 With Profits Reports
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Update 59
Issued 4 December 2018
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- Early Bird Special Offer: 2018 AKG UK Life Office With Profits Reports
- Download AKG’s Retirement Planning Guide
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Update 58
Issued 5 November 2018
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- Regulatory collaboration a positive step forward for pensions
- AKG Report – Direct Lending as an Asset Class
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Update 57
Issued 8 October 2018
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- AKG Report – Direct Lending as an Asset Class
- Algocracy
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Update 56
Issued 13 September 2018
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- What have providers got to do to win with advisers in the pensions/retirement market?
- Fund Manager Performance Alone is Not Enough
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Update 55
Issued 20 August 2018
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- Watch our animation on AKG’s approach to financial strength…
- The digital regulatory challenge
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Update 54
Issued 31 July 2018
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- Second anniversary of AKG’s DFM assessments
- Watch our animation on AKG’s approach to financial strength…
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Update 53
Issued 16 July 2018
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- AKG's Platform Ratings and Reports
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Update 52
Issued 28 June 2018
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- Change apace and aplenty
- AKG pension freedoms paper
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Update 51
Issued 13 June 2018
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- Press coverage of AKG pension freedoms paper
- AKG's annual With Profits information requests
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Update 50
Issued 30 May 2018
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- AKG Pension Freedoms Paper 2018 is now available to download…
- GDPR BAU
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Update 49
Issued 9 May 2018
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- AKG in the news
- AKG Pension Freedoms paper coming soon…
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Update 48
Issued 12 April 2018
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- AKG publishes second With Profits Market Briefing
- AKG pension freedoms paper 2018 – coming soon
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Update 47
Issued 27 March 2018
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- Reflection on Q1 at AKG
- How the overcoat of regulation protects and insulates financial services incumbents
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Update 46
Issued 8 March 2018
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- Proposed acquisition of Standard Life Assurance by Phoenix
- AKG’s platform operator assessments and their positioning in adviser due diligence
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Update 45
Issued 12 February 2018
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- The Brexit dimension across European financial services
- DFM assessment coverage and activity
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Update 44
Issued 16 January 2018
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- A New Year’s Aspiration
- AKG 2017 With Profits Reports
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Update 43
Issued 21 December 2017
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- Merry Christmas from AKG
- AKG launches 2017 With Profits Reports
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Update 42
Issued 12 December 2017
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- Areas of activity as we close in on Christmas
- AKG in the trade press
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Update 41
Issued 13 November 2017
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- New AKG financial strength assessment reports
- AKG in the trade press
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Update 40
Issued 21 September 2017
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- AKG Financial Strength Assessment Reports – Improvements
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Update 39
Issued 31 July 2017
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- DFM assessments one year on...
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Update 38
Issued 10 July 2017
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- AKG with profits assessment work well underway (with a regulatory review to come…)
- Are any SFCRs going to make it into the top 10 of holiday reads for summer 2017?
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Update 37
Issued 19 June 2017
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- What do we mean by Financial Strength?
- A Solvency II Cost/Benefit Conundrum
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Update 36
Issued 25 May 2017
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- AKG Profile Report Development
- Industry Dynamics
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Update 35
Issued 25 April 2017
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- The evolving UK retirement market
- DFMs
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Update 34
Issued 29 March 2017
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- Maintaining focus and continuity - companies under the microscope
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Update 33
Issued 2 March 2017
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- AKG publishes With Profits Market Briefing
- FinTech, InsureTech, and the Regulatory Challenges Ahead
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Update 32
Issued 6 February 2017
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- Potential implications for Solvency II post-Brexit
- UK pensions market outlook and direction of travel
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Update 31
Issued 9 January 2017
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- How significant is the With Profits market nowadays?
- Solvency II public domain disclosure arrives
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Update 30
Issued 21 December 2016
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- Merry Christmas from AKG
- AKG launches 2016 With Profits Reports
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Update 29
Issued 7 December 2016
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- Pensions Dashboard prototype to be ready by Spring 2017
- DISCUS 'Coffee Talks': Video on adviser due diligence
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Update 28
Issued 15 November 2016
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- AXA business disposals update…
- AKG 2016 With Profits Reports coming soon…take advantage of early bird offer
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Update 27
Issued 19 October 2016
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- AKG 2016 With Profits Reports coming soon…take advantage of early bird offer
- AKG Autumn activity update
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Update 26
Issued 27 September 2016
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- Freedom and choice reforms one year on and the introduction of the secondary annuity market
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Update 25
Issued 15 August 2016
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- Assessing the risk and governance structures and processes in place to underpin the delivery of managed fund/portfolio solutions
- Launch of AKG’s DFM Profile & Financial Strength Reports
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Update 24
Issued 28 July 2016
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- Launch of AKG’s DFM Profile & Financial Strength Reports
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Update 23
Issued 28 June 2016
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- Referendum Comment
- AKG Retirement Proposition Reviews
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Update 22
Issued 9 June 2016
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- DFM due diligence DISCUSed
- What next for the SIPP market?
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Update 21
Issued 13 May 2016
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- AKG on the road discussing DFM due diligence
- The growing influence of technology in financial services
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Update 20
Issued 20 Apr 2016
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- Platform due diligence
- SIPP operator assessments
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Update 19
Issued 31 Mar 2016
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- A dull thud! … the arrival of the final FAMR report
- Ageing population and financial services
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Update 18
Issued 4 Mar 2016
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- The importance of platform due diligence
- Solvency II has (finally) landed!
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Update 17
Issued 3 Feb 2016
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- Solvency II has (finally) landed!
- Buy AKG’s With Profits Reports online
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Update 16
Issued 11 Jan 2016
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- Happy New Year from AKG
- Buy AKG’s With Profits Reports online
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Update 15
Issued 24 Dec 2015
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- Merry Christmas from AKG
- AKG launches 2015 With Profits Reports
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Update 14
Issued 25 Nov 2015
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- Happy Birthday to the AKG Rating Portal
- Be an early bird and catch AKG’s 2015 With Profits Reports at the 2014 price
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Update 13
Issued 10 Nov 2015
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- Be an early bird and catch AKG’s 2015 With Profits Reports at the 2014 price
- AKG Platform Ratings featured in the lang cat’s guide to advised platforms
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Update 12
Issued 7 Oct 2015
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- Introducing AKG Financial Analytics
- AKG 2015 UK Life Office With Profits Reports
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Update 11
Issued 16 Sep 2015
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- PFS Good Practice Guide
- AKG pension freedoms paper
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Update 10
Issued 12 Aug 2015
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- Evolving distribution approach and embracing technology
- Independent Review of PPMG's Investment Management and Governance Structure
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Update 9
Issued 15 Jul 2015
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- Publication of AKG paper on the retirement income market
- Matt Ward elected to Board of ILAG
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Update 8
Issued 12 Jun 2015
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- Constant Change?
- AKG discusses the growing importance of fund governance
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Update 7
Issued 14 May 2015
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- Interesting times in the Offshore market...
- AKG to discuss the growing importance of fund governance
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Update 6
Issued 22 Apr 2015
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- A period of progression for businesses coming together
- Assessing the financial strength and viability of platform operators
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Update 5
Issued 19 Mar 2015
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- Why Does AKG Rate Some Companies In More Than One Sector?
- AKG Platform Profile Reports Now Available To Purchase In Bundled Format
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Update 4
Issued 5 Mar 2015
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- AKG Post-Budget Market Research – Invitation To Participate
- AKG Platform Profile Reports Now Available To Purchase In Bundled Format
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Update 3
Issued 18 Feb 2015
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- An interesting M&A start to 2015
- AKG contributes to the Financial Services Forum
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Update 2
Issued 29 Jan 2015
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- Welcome to the second issue of AKG Update
- AKG News Commentary on Pensions Freedom Implications
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Update 1
Issued 14 Jan 2015
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- AKG launches report and rating update service
- AKG publishes 2014 UK Life Office With Profits Reports
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