THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS SERENE, COURAGEOUS AND WISE
So I’m writing this at about 10pm on Tuesday night, trying to work out whether to bother staying up to see the first of the results come in. Looking at my diary tomorrow I suspect the answer is no. If you did I hope you got what you wanted. Personally I’m torn, as the last […]
Hello Fundment!
During the 2010s, several commentators were fond of sayings things like ‘within five years, there will only be four or five adviser platforms’. Their fantasy was that the behemoths would hoover up the smaller, generally start-up-based, platforms, thus preserving the traditional establishment’s grip on the UK retail investment market and enjoying a vertical integration-based nirvana. […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE REJECTS BOTH TRICKS AND TREATS
As we move further from Beltane and towards Samhain – not only a fine festival but also one of Glenn Danzig’s best projects – and a pattern of daylight which really only suits farmers, our collective chins may start to head towards our collective chests. There is not much cheer to be found out there, […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE THINKS IT WILL ALL END IN TIERS
Regular readers might recall that the boss ended last week’s update on this bombshell: “I’m on holiday next week, so will pick the feline I like least and have them do the Update”. Oh. Right. Fortunately, whilst Mark is away enjoying the Scottish Weather, there is plenty happening down here in the lang cat IOW […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE HAS A MAGNETIC BACK NOW
It is, in a way, reassuring that even in these troubled times, Californian billionaires still find new ways to get us to buy very slightly different versions of things we have already. Human nature is still intact. Speaking of human nature, last week’s Update sparked a near-unprecedented flurry of various interested parties and observers taking […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE HAS NEVER KNOWINGLY USED ITS DISCRETION
I bet he didn’t even have it. It’s tempting to do something about lack of discretion and all that, but time’s marching on and our subject this week is a little weightier than usual. We need to talk about DFMs, and specifically DFM model portfolios on platform. I covered this back in June when Tatton […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE WON’T EVER TALK OVER YOU
You want to know who I feel sorry for? The producers and writers of the new Spitting Image, that’s who. Satire – puppet-based or otherwise – made sense in 1985, but in this new auto-satirical time there really doesn’t seem to be much point. Sigh. Let’s kick things off this week with an OFFER YOU […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE NEVER WANTED TO COME ROUND YOUR HOUSE ANYWAY
Aaaannnnd…here we go again. Eyes down for another six months of all this, whatever ‘this’ is for you. The good news is that (I think) Covid-19 doesn’t work on Mondays to Wednesdays or before 10pm at all other times in social settings unless it’s in your house with groups more than six which may or […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE CELEBRATES A PERFECT(ish) TEN
And so it came to pass that ten years ago today (well, yesterday but who’s counting?) the lang cat was born. Sightless, pitiful and mewling (that’s what happens when you sample the bottles from the back of the cupboard), this funny little company came into the world, and here we are. No-one likes self-congratulatory nostalgia, […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE ONLY BREAKS LAWS IN A SPECIFIC AND LIMITED WAY
Every so often something comes along in the public discourse that we can all really get behind. Such a one was Brandon Lewis’s magnificent admission yesterday, which opens the door for all kinds of merriment. Driving when unsure you’re safe to do so in the North East of England? “I was breaking the Highway Code […]
