The Top Class Wednesday Update traverses filaments of light
This week we’re talking about one of the few remaining truly opaque areas in this business we call show, and that’s the perennial issue of cash on platforms.
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 has only just recovered
If you’ll be so kind, I want to use this update to reflect on a few aspects of our Home Truths event that really stuck out for me.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is easily distracted by squirrels
What’s exciting in the world of regulation this week? From my position behind the bird feeder it’s come from the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee.
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.
