THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE WOULD MAKE A GREAT OMBUDSCAT
No, but we would, Hear us out, right? The thing is, this new report finds that FOS isn’t doing what it’s meant to do, which is provide fair dispute resolution at speed and without being too spendy about it. The report – well summarised by Jenna from Professional Adviser here – will make uncomfortable reading […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MOBILE
Some confusion here at the lang cat’s Secondary Port Authority as everyone else marks their year of lockdown this week, whereas ours was last week. Maybe we’re just even more antisocial than everyone else. Whichever is the case, this is as good a time as any to send a cloud of positive vibe-filled ethereal psychic […]
HAPPY LOCKDOWNIVERSARY FROM THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE
Jings, crivvens and help ma boab, it was a year ago yesterday that we emptied the fridge, fumigated the harder-to-reach areas of someone’s desk (M**k L***e) and had a quick fight over who would get to take the rest of the bog roll home (me). We shut the shutters and that’s been that for a […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE COUNTS THEM ALL BACK IN AGAIN
And so we bear down on a full year since all this madness began. Next week will mark the anniversary of when we shut the office; seems like twice that. For those readers in Engerland with kids, I hope the return to school has been good; ours is next week and it really can’t come […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE COULD TAKE SUNAK IN A SQUARE GO, EASY
Yeah, OK so he’s got our entire economic future held in his Coke-addicted (as opposed to coke-addicted, let’s make that clear) hands, but has he got 500 words on MiFID II negative target market definition and disconnects in MI between manufacturers and distributors of retail investment products? NO HE DOES NOT. So that’s a win […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE SAYS IT’S ALL IN THE MIND
Hello, hello, me again. Sorry for breaching your inboxes yesterday in an unexpected fashion and thanks to all who dropped a note to say you’d voted for Steve for Professional Adviser’s Personality of the Year. Double thanks to those of you who managed to crack a joke about Steve’s personality too – all of those […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY
Non-apologies are great, aren’t they? As a rhetorical device they’re hard to beat. At one stroke you can say you’ve apologised, and your interlocutor is left sputtering about how that wasn’t a proper apology, which in turn lets you come straight back with “Oh, we’re grading apologies now? Well I’m sorry you feel my apology […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS NOTHING IF NOT PREDICTABLE
Some people just don’t want to go messing about with irony. After the excitement of James Hay’s announcement that it plans to assimilate Nucleus, I popped onto the Twitter and hilariously asked if anyone had any thoughts on what I might cover this week. Well, I got lots of nice suggestions and now I feel […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS FULL OF ANGST
The gaffer is still enjoying a well-earned break so it’s Steve here on TCWU duties. Hiya. Now, I don’t know about you but I had a magnificent week last week, thanks very much for asking. The past few weeks I’ve been feeling a very tangible sense of information overload, particularly on the old social media […]
TEN THINGS WE LEARNED FROM STATE OF THE ADVISER NATION 2018. NUMBER 7 WILL DRIVE YOU WILD!
So, it’s my second to last working day before paternity leave starts and I’m ticking off items on the to-do list faster than an [insert witty metaphor here that I’m too busy to think of]. Our second annual State of the Adviser Nation (SOTAN from hereon) research is in the field and Chester McSillypants here […]
