Alliance Trust Savings has added seven new staff to its platform intermediary sales force in order to actively target the adviser market.
The new staff include three business development managers and four telephone platform account managers.
The three new business development managers are Paul Judd who joins from Skandia, Steve Brooks who also joins from Skandia and Scott Winters who joins the firm from Ascentric.
Alliance Trust Savings has also appointed Julie Maguire as head of marketing and communications who joins from Standard Life.
The Alliance Trust Savings platform offers a flat fee stricture, whole of market access to investment trusts and other investment choices such as ETFs.
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Garry Mcluckie, sales and marketing director at Alliance Trust Savings, said: "The platform market in general has recently witnessed some major cutbacks to the size of sales teams. Alliance Trust Savings is bucking this trend by making a series of appointments to strengthen our intermediary sales team. We have brought in three highly-experienced business development managers who will help take the proposition to a wider audience.
"2013 is set to be a strong growth year for ATS, especially in the intermediary market, due to the way we have structured our business. With the implementation of RDR and more intermediaries moving towards a multi-platform solution, we expect significant growth from the intermediary market as we offer something truly different to other platforms."

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