THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE MAKES NO CHARGE FOR ONGOING SERVICE
Greetings from the Isle of Wight. The boss is apparently busy with other stuff (presumably organising our virtual office Christmas party [1] ) so for one week only I’m back in charge of the weekly update. Sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin. It was a pretty full-on week last week, what with Parmenion, Nucleus, Transact […]
All change in Platform Land
Any thoughts of a quiet end to the year in platform land [1] were firmly kicked into touch at midday today with Nucleus publishing a statement regarding a possible offer, a story that had been broken by the mighty Jack Gilbert at NMA a few minutes earlier. This of course comes on top of the […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE MIGHT PUT THE TREE UP EARLY THIS YEAR
Welcome to the last twelfth of the year so bad they named it twice. If you’re still here – and that’s a conditional phrase that carries more weight than it should this year – then you made it. Well done. Nearly there. Keep going. I’m usually a bit of a moan about the run-up to […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS 90% EFFECTIVE WHEN TAKEN IN TWO DOSES
Reasons to be cheerful, one two three…I don’t know where you stand, but I’m starting to book up gig tickets for next autumn. As my oldest, wisest and best mate Alsy says, “Personally planning to gig my **** off once we can”. Words to live by. The Update always tells the truth, and to be […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE’S LEVEL IS ALL THE WAY UP TO 11
It’s true; while various parts of the country labour under level three, two and even four if you live in the west of Scotland’s Central Belt, your faithful Update exists on a completely different scale. Level 11 allows the Update to travel freely in time and space, raid your drinks cupboard, insult your local sports […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE WINS EVERYTHING BY A LOT
After a monumentally rubbish eight months, the occasional shaft of sunlight pierces the clouds – a U-turn on whether it’s OK to let kids go hungry, the potential for a vaccine that works, and the really big one…genuine, laugh-out-loud comedy from the American politico-judicial process. If it wasn’t for the import taxes I’d be buying […]
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 […]
