Reports
UK's Third Financial Sees Strong Growth After Fast Start To New Wealth Platform
The wealth technology firm said the launch of its new platform for wealth managers last November has exceeded expectations already in terms of client sign-ups.
Third Financial, which supplies wealth management software and
platform services expects that the total assets under management
of clients it caters to will get to £1 billion ($1.3 billion)
this year, securing sales to a total of 10 clients by the end of
June, only six months after launching its Tercero Cloud platform
service.
The UK firm said it has already got beyond its mandate of
bringing in six clients, it told this publication when asked
about a recent press release in which Third Financial spoke of
“unparalleled success” with its platform. The platform was
launched at the start of November last year.
Asked about any revenue or other financial metrics, Stewart
Foster, group chief executive, said the firm’s roster of clients
will grow so that next year the AuM total for its customers
should pass through the £3 billion level.
Foster said the firm likes to focus on the sub £1 billion AuM
market “which has always been traditionally our strength and it
is the area of the UK which is showing the most rapid
growth”.
The firm argues that its Tercero Cloud is ideal for wealth
managers in the sub-£1.0 billion AuM bracket, because it offers
strong technology, and all-inclusive charge and personalised
service.
WealthBriefing understands that two of the firms using
Third Financial’s new platform, for example, are discretionary
fund managers in the £250 million range. One of the clients was
an existing Tercero software client which, when its software
contract ended after five years, became a client of the new
platform. That firm goes live on the system in September. The
other firm, this publication understands, is a client of Adam &
Co, the private bank.