Our thoughts on the Standard Life / Phoenix announcement
Well, now. This has been a tricky one. Standard Life Aberdeen’s disposal of its life business to Phoenix, king of the zombie insurers, took me by surprise and to be honest I’m still working out what I think about it and what the consequences will be (of the disposal, not of me thinking; usually the […]
I would have got away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling KIIDs
The cat is officially out of the bag (not that we condone cats being in bags). One of the changes ushered in at the start of the year by the beast that is MIFID II is the requirement for fund groups to disclose the additional transaction costs that are charged to their funds, on top […]
I would have got away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling KIIDs
The cat is officially out of the bag (not that we condone cats being in bags). One of the changes ushered in at the start of the year by the beast that is MIFID II is the requirement for fund groups to disclose the additional transaction costs that are charged to their funds, on top […]
MIFID reality check
So, happy new year and all that. First full week back. Yay. Whilst everyone was off eating/drinking/bravely battling #manflu (delete as appropriate) the investment industry got on with the small matter of the implementing MIFID II. For a lot of folk this was a huge project, described to us yesterday by someone who had lived […]
MIFID reality check
So, happy new year and all that. First full week back. Yay. Whilst everyone was off eating/drinking/bravely battling #manflu (delete as appropriate) the investment industry got on with the small matter of the implementing MIFID II. For a lot of folk this was a huge project, described to us yesterday by someone who had lived […]
the lang cat’s roundup of 2017
The year is ebbing away as I write this; Hogmanay is upon us and the fortified wine is running low. But before I go to sleep and prepare myself for tonight’s festivities, it’s time for our round-up of 2017. This is the sister blog to the lang cat’s albums of 2017, which I commend to […]
the lang cat’s albums of 2017
So this is the seventh set of choices that I’ve fired out into the listless void, being as how weâre seven years old now. Sometimes I get pelters for it. Most of the time no-one notices. Does a list of great music make a squall of feedback in the forest when no-one is there to […]
the lang cat’s roundup of 2017
The year is ebbing away as I write this; Hogmanay is upon us and the fortified wine is running low. But before I go to sleep and prepare myself for tonight’s festivities, it’s time for our round-up of 2017. This is the sister blog to the lang cat’s albums of 2017, which I commend to […]
the lang cat’s albums of 2017
So this is the seventh set of choices that I’ve fired out into the listless void, being as how weâre seven years old now. Sometimes I get pelters for it. Most of the time no-one notices. Does a list of great music make a squall of feedback in the forest when no-one is there to […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE LANG CAT
