Page 17 – The Lang Cat

The Top Class Wednesday Update is off to the cabin

7IM gets bought by Canadian teachers and Criterion publishes draft data standards for DFM and model portfolio services on platforms.

As normality gradually reasserts itself after the summer holiday season, Mark takes a depressing foray into the gender investing gap.

Rich Mayor steps in to provide news and insights on platform growth. The striking line in the graph is … um … the line for outflows.

Silly season is upon us and this year’s is notable for the being completely indistinguishable from the bin fire that’s been the rest of 2023.

It’s Edinburgh Festival time up here, so we’re all in a foul mood. Will the FCA booting the mooted ‘core investment advice’ regime into touch help?

SJP and 1825 have both been in the news this week with chunky value write downs. Is that cold east wind starting to blow?

Consumer Duty day is coming. Meantime mucking around with pension death benefits is going on again and Space Karen has gone X.

In the final part of our mini-series on service and what it really means, we hear from abrdn chief commercial and strategy officer Jonny Black.

Alison Gay looks at how The Financial Services and Markets Act replaces retained EU law with a ‘Smarter Regulatory Framework’. We’ll see.

Continuing our mini-series on what service really means, next up we hear from Siân Davies Cole from Plan Works.