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Wealth Management-Online (25/02/2008)
Glasgow-based Scott-Moncrieff have launched a new brand for "Wealth Management-Online".

This service provides online features including a risk profiler enabling visitors to select model portfolios that reflect their attitude to risk, and then make an investment over the internet using their debit card. The system uses XML messaging with Cofunds for processing the deals, and also enables clients to view real time valuations, plus perform online top-ups.

Design-wise, there is a mixture of interactive Flash animation for combining ease of use with an enriched new experience.

Have a look at the Wealth Management-Online website.

Ultra VW Magazine (15/01/2008)
CH Publications has now released another new website as part of enhancing their brand and positioning on the Internet.

Ultra VW is a leading specialist magazine for Volkswagens, covering aircooled Campers, Beetles, Bugs, Karmann Ghia and other favourites, plus some of the non air-cooled classics such as Mk1 Golf GTIs.

Screen Business previously launched Performance Tuner, and has rolled out its Content Management System to UVW. In addition to the main informaition site, visitors and subscribers can addtheir cars for sale in a classifieds section, buy and renew subscriptions online, and also use the e-commerce facilities to buy items such as back-issues and books online.

This is the next step in enabling a common branded theme across all the CHP titles, for a more professional, interactive and global reach.

Click to view the Ultra VW Magazine website.

Chandos Rose (18/12/2007)
Acclaimed industry expert Philip Rose has returned, and selected Screen Business to design and build a new website for his new investment and retirement advice firm, Chandos Rose.

The website is aimed at simplicity, with clear directions on the homepage for visitors to choose "Full Pension Advice" or a self-service "Do it Yourself" option. The latter is aimed at providing self-management and fund switching with online SIPP tools, and a link with Adviser Office for full valuation reports. 

Furthermore, having tied up with the Telegraph, the website allows visitors to complete an online coupon for enquiries, which reflects the offline version for brand continuity.

Click for Chandos Rose's pension advice website.

The Pension Drawdown Company (26/10/2007)
This Devon-based specialist is a leading light in the world of pension drawdown, championing the benefits and helping an increasing number of people enjoy its rewards when they retire. They give independent advice for all kinds of issues and topics surrounding pension planning, investments, critical illness, etc, but pension drawdown is their speciality.

The new website is aimed at educating those who do not know much about income drawdown and alternatively secured pensions, but not giving too much information to make them feel uncomfirtable.

At the back end, clients can log in to view the value of their portfolios. This uses the critically acclaimed "Client Reporting Online", which pulls data from Pension Drawdown's Adviser Office system and exports it securely to their website.

The SEO-ready retirement information is aimed at achieving high ranking for the relevant terms, and receives ongoing monitoring to ensure it will climb to the top of the rankings over time.

Click to view the pension drawdown website.

Moore Stephens Financial Services (25/04/2007)
Chartered Accountancy firm Moore Stephens has been growing its Financial Services arm at such a rate that it is making some big waves. Moore Stephens Finanical Services selected Screen Business to design and build the new website ('MSFS' for short), and it sees the new corporate brand being applied to the internet in a striking new way. The black background has been sympathetically shaded to give it depth, and it and contrasts very effectively with the multitude of strong colours in photographs that represent the different "paths" through life.

A very attractive part of the online proposition is an interactive risk questionnaire, which asks the visitor a number of questions before showing a model portfolio based on the answers.

The website is fully content-managed, and also incorporates Client Reporting Online, which enables clients to log in securely to view their portfolio valuation online, using data extracted automatically from Adviser Office.

You can see the website at www.msfs.co.uk

TG Reports (29/03/2007)
Thomas Gerard Limited has been developing a useful Microsoft Excel-based tool to help Financial Advisers complete their Retail Mediation Activity Returns for the FSA - (also known as RMAR Reports). Screen Business was chosen to design the logo and brand, which became the basis for the new website. The result is a very easy to use website that enables Intermediaries to register for an online demo, and then buy online using an e-commerce integration with Worldpay as a merchant partner. Have a look at www.tgreports.co.uk.

Online ISA and Fund supermarkets (27/02/2007)
Following a very strong year for the FTSE, many firms have come to us with very different requirements for online ISA supermarkets. In recent months, we have been working on some very different models, which each result in a client being able to buy an ISA with their debit card online. We recently reported that Nsure went live in January, and in February three more were published.

Each of the systems integrate with Cofunds for full online capability, so in addition to online purchase, enable clients to view their valuation, and even switch and topup funds. To see the very different layouts that we have developed, have a look at Fundsnet, Myinvestmentcentre and the online section at Chelsea Financial Services, with Easy-Funds and beatthatquote.com coming over the next weeks.

NSure (10/01/2007)
NSure is a specialist in personal and business financial advice in Worthing, Sussex. The new site was intended to be fully interactive, and as such Screen Business was selected to design, build and host it. The result is a fully interactive financial website with secure quote and buy applications. Clients can log in to view their portfolio valuations online, new clients can search and buy ISA investments, search for mortgage products and get live comparative annuity quotes from a panel of providers.

The design was created to compliment the branding and colour scheme, with a fully "stretchable" layout to accommodate different screen sizes. The entire website is based on our .NET framework, enabling any future deveopments to be added with ease and flexibility, around the content management system.
www.nsure.co.uk

Financial Solutions Midhurst (7/09/2006)
West-Sussex fee-based company Financial Solutions provides advice in a style that is bespoke, personal and innovative. The new website is warm, inviting and uncluttered, providing a simple overview of information and encouraging visitors to make contact with their independent financial advisers.

Pebbles were chosen as the design concept, because like a crowd of people, pebbles may look similar from a distance, but upon closer scrutiny they are very different and therefore have different needs. The creative process took this concept to produce a website that is pleasingly balanced, professional and easy to use.
www.financialsolutions-uk.net  

Treating Customers Fairly (21/06/2006)
The TCF Forum is a group of mortgage lenders who have come together in order to communicate to brokers the FSA best practice guidelines of Treating Customers Fairly. The website, TCF Info, is designed as a resource for mortgage intermediaries to learn about issues and topics that are relevant to them, rather than trawl through the vast array of hidden information that can be hard to find within governmental and regulatory websites.

Screen Business was selected to create the brand colours and logo as well as the full bespoke website design and development. The site has been built on our .NET Content Management System, enabling the easy addition and updating of any text or documents, and it can support RSS feeds so that lenders will be able to import content dynamically for use on their own websites.
www.tcfinfo.co.uk

Timothy Sandys (05/05/2006)
A modern and forward thinking sculptor, Timothy Sandys creates very unusual and captivating works with modern materials such as carbon fibre in a fascinating process.

In order to keep the focus on his sculptures, the site design was kept very minimal and easy to use, with an intuitive gallery, whilst bringing out the deep rich reflections and refractions from the curved organic surfaces in the photographs.
www.timothysandys.co.uk

Scion Films (14/04/2006)
One of the leading providers of advice and finance to the British film industry, Scion Films recently rebranded its entire corporate identity. Screen Business was selected to deliver the web channel, with a brief to create a slick, simple, image-rich corporate website, based on the "family tree" structure of the Scion family of companies.

The result is a clean, fresh and modern website which communicates the company's successes graphically with brief and informative descriptions. The content, as is now becoming more usual for Screen Business sites, can be updated through the easy to use Content Management System. 
www.scionfilms.com

Berry Asset Management (08/02/2006)
Chelsea-based high net worth investment management specialists Berry Asset Management PLC received their new website today. The redesign was aimed at being more consistent with the new corporate brochure and colours, but also incorporates our time-saving Content Management System (CMS). This enables the team to keep the website fresh and current, with the ability upload PDF documents into the news section.

The redesign was also applied to the online portfolio valuations service, which uses extracts from Pulse Software to deliver reports to private clients through a password protected screen.
www.berry.co.uk

Heartwood Wealth Management (16/01/2006)
Today, Cripps Portfolio rebranded as Heartwood Wealth Management. In order to support their new name and corporate image, a very special website was required. They chose Screen Business to design and build a competely new bespoke site, as we had already successfully been hosting their online client portfolio valuation service. The new site, which also launched today, 16th January 2006, includes a Content Management System for full control of text, images, documents and other configurable items.

As before, the website also allows clients to view the value of their portfolio, using an extract from the Pulse Software database, which is run by an automatic scheduled upload.
www.heartwoodwealth.com

Screen Business Limited focused on the concept that HWCF is very much a people business, and thererfore created a clean, professional looking design with a very personal flavour, to include biographies of all the key staff at HW Corporate Finance.

CRA Group goes live (21/10/2005)
Charles Reynolds & Associates, a North-London based independent financial adviser and employee benefits specialist, recently launched its website. Having identified the benefits of offering an online benefits communication tool in Staffcare, they commissioned a clear, simple website which would lay out their credentials in a professional way and at an affordable price.
www.cragroup.co.uk