Model portfolio solutions

Providing your clients with tailored investment solutions that align with their goals and attitude to risk is vital to helping you deliver better customer outcomes. That’s why we provide access to a range of Model Portfolios – expertly designed, curated, and managed by discretionary fund managers to help you meet your clients’ needs easily and efficiently.

Our award winning platform offers a diverse range of model portfolios available from over 80 discretionary managers to help you deliver better outcomes for your clients.

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Diverse investment
options

Diverse investment solutions

  • Choose the right model portfolios to meet each client’s unique needs, whether they seek long term growth, income generation or sustainable options.
  • Strategies include active management, passive or a blended approach.
  • Ability to hold multiple model portfolios and other investments, all in one wrapper account.
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Greater scale
and efficiency

Greater scale and efficiency

  • Our award-winning platform enables you and your discretionary fund manager to work smarter saving you time and helping you deliver value for money for your clients.
  • Seamless processes to easily select suitable model portfolios aligned to your client’s risk profile and requirements.
  • Your discretionary fund manager can smoothly build portfolios, with automatic or ad-hoc rebalancing and full reporting functionality to easily manage the models.
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Better customer
outcomes

Better customer outcomes

  • Transparent charges – platform, advice and investment charges are easy to explain to your client.
  • Move client funds easily between model portfolios and other investments without the need to open and close accounts or secure a wet client signature.
  • Real-time data and analytics enable you to make informed investment decisions and monitor your clients’ portfolios with precision and accuracy.
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Connect with
investment expertise

Connect with investment expertise

  • Benefit from the expertise of investment professionals as they make investment decisions, monitor returns, edit and rebalance model portfolios when required to ensure that model objectives are met.
  • Discretionary fund manager expertise is accessible to a wider range of clients as model portfolios accept lower levels of investment and are offered at lower cost than traditional bespoke discretionary fund management services.
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Diverse investment solutions

  • Choose the right model portfolios to meet each client’s unique needs, whether they seek long term growth, income generation or sustainable options.
  • Strategies include active management, passive or a blended approach.
  • Ability to hold multiple model portfolios and other investments, all in one wrapper account.
Red Scottish Widows small and large box with tick icon

Greater scale and efficiency

  • Our award-winning platform enables you and your discretionary fund manager to work smarter saving you time and helping you deliver value for money for your clients.
  • Seamless processes to easily select suitable model portfolios aligned to your client’s risk profile and requirements.
  • Your discretionary fund manager can smoothly build portfolios, with automatic or ad-hoc rebalancing and full reporting functionality to easily manage the models.
Red Scottish Widows person with tick symbol icon

Better customer outcomes

  • Transparent charges – platform, advice and investment charges are easy to explain to your client.
  • Move client funds easily between model portfolios and other investments without the need to open and close accounts or secure a wet client signature.
  • Real-time data and analytics enable you to make informed investment decisions and monitor your clients’ portfolios with precision and accuracy.
Red Scottish Widows speech bubble and chart icon

Connect with investment expertise

  • Benefit from the expertise of investment professionals as they make investment decisions, monitor returns, edit and rebalance model portfolios when required to ensure that model objectives are met.
  • Discretionary fund manager expertise is accessible to a wider range of clients as model portfolios accept lower levels of investment and are offered at lower cost than traditional bespoke discretionary fund management services.

Discretionary fund managers
on our platform

Discretionary fund
managers on our Platform

It’s essential the information you key onto the platform matches the information held by the ceding provider to ensure your transfer progresses as quickly as possible.

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An award-winning platform
designed for advisers

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With us, you are in control of your clients’ investments. Our technology offers:

  • A seamless experience, ensuring ease of use and efficiency in managing your investments and reporting.
  • Our secure, powerful platform connects smoothly into your existing back-office systems.
  • We’re fully digital and offer over 50 straight through processes to drive maximum efficiency.
  • We offer tools from EVPro* and FE FundCentre, alongside our integrated Capital Gains Tool, to help you scenario plan and access comprehensive insights effortlessly.
  • Create compelling, customised and branded client reports, at account or product level, that are easy to understand. The report includes summaries of product holdings and activity, transactions and performance.

* Please talk to your Business Development Manager about accessing EVPro.

Platform and investment industry
news and expertise

Platform and investment industry news and expertise

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At Scottish Widows we love to share our expertise to help your advice process and your clients.

For topical insight and news from our investment experts, and our view on latest trends in the adviser platform market, please visit our insight hub.

This is where you’ll find our latest vodcasts, Confidence Barometer, and Paraplanner Survey.

Morningstar Model Portfolios

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From February 2025 we no longer update the asset allocation on the Morningstar Model Portfolios. Your clients can remain invested in their current model version, or you may wish to move to an alternative model portfolio, details of the DFM models we offer can accessed above.

Partner with us

We’d love to work with you and help you deliver great value and outcomes for your clients. Get started by partnering with us.

Multi-asset solutions

Find out more about our diverse range of multi-asset solutions available on the Scottish Widows Platform that provide flexibility to meet a variety of clients’ investment objectives.