Fintel plc and BlackRock announced a key expansion to their strategic distribution agreement. Under the expanded agreement, BlackRock's MyMap funds will join F Intel's Risk Controlled investment solutions, ensuring that its suite of multi-asset funds become central to the investment process of the thousands of advisers who use its financial planning technology. Delivered by SimplyBiz and Defaqto, both part of F Intel, the Risk Controlled investment range is designed to improve both adviser efficiency and consumer outcomes, enabling product manufacturers to cater to consumer preferences and risk profiles by optimally aligning investment solutions to the advice and research processes powered by Defaqto.

The Risk Controlled range streamlines the advice process whilst ensuring that advisers can select from a range of funds developed by a number of product manufacturers which are all managed in line with the investment and risk parameters suitable for advisers' clients. This is an extension of the Managed Distribution agreement that BlackRock has had in place with F Intel since November 2020, and follows Schroders, Fidelity and Aviva, who have also further aligned their distribution strategies to partner with Fintel.