The Top Class Wednesday Update has checked down the back of the machine

It turns out that quite a lot of asset managers are still using fax machines. 62% to be precise. And the UK isn’t the worst – the USA and Singapore are up at well over 70%
The Top Class Wednesday Update only likes the right sort of friction

My mind has gone to places it shouldn’t thanks to the latest on the advice / guidance boundary review. It seems the game’s a bogey and it’s back to the drawing board.
The Top Class Wednesday Update won’t keep you

It’s Budget day, siblings, so I won’t keep you too long. In fact I can’t ever keep you. This is just an email; I haven’t got you trussed up in a corner somewhere.
The Top Class Wednesday Update says consensus works

This week we venture to Pensionsland, not for the lulz but to highlight an interesting skirmish led by our own pensions simian Lord McPhail of The Shires.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is £1,000 short

Right, let’s spoil the party with some new Consumer Duty stuff. The topic of value for money is going to be a battleground. And we need to talk about due diligence.
The Top Class Wednesday Update rocks (for Ukraine)

An unusual Update this week, all given over to one topic which is nothing to do with anything other than trying to get you to help raise some money.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is quite Consumer Dutery

In times like this one must reach for nice things, and so I’m going to ignore Consumer Duty, and concentrate on our Home Truths event, next Thursday.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is deliberate, not careless

I mean we’ve all done it, right? You’re filling out your tax return, the Deliveroo guy comes to the door with your bao order and you miss out your £27 million offshore trust.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is colder than a welldigger’s…

The tail end of last year wasn’t all that and a bag of chips, based on a couple of key platform results we’ve already had in. Is the cost of living crisis starting to bite?
Start the year afresh with The Top Class Wednesday Update

What have we learned from the hot mess that was 2022? How will we ascend, overcome and quite literally carpe the diem out of 2023?