The Top Class Wednesday Update is… niche
Mark takes a look at the latest new entrant to the platform market: the LV= platform.
Divide and Conquer – In the red corner…
Getting ahead in a divided world – hear from Pete Matthew, Philippa Hann and Caroline Stuart on what’s worked for them.
“Get in the van!”
It was the summer of 2019, and Rich and his band were making their way across Europe…
The Top Class Wednesday Update is neither comfortable nor numb
Oliver Perrin is taking the reins for this week’s #Update to share a personal tale about his recent frustrating pension transfer experience.
Divide and Conquer – In the blue corner…
Hear what the FCA and Quilter CEO Steven Levin have to say on advice and guidance, VI and the relationship between regulator and regulated.
The Top Class Wednesday Update has too many exclamation marks
In the first proper full week of 2025 Mark’s all about punctuation, #langcatlive, the vagaries of statistics, and ideas to stimulate economic growth. For socks.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is all socks, no stock
Mark’s not doing a look back at 2024 or predictions for 2025, but has commented on the ‘massive trolling exercise’ by the government on the FCA and other regulators.
The lang cat’s albums of 2024
The annual roundup literally no-one has been waiting for. Here are Mark’s – and no-one else’s – ten best records of the year.
The Top Class Wednesday Update won’t learn anything from this
And so that’s it, we’re nearly ready to put the cork in 2024. This is your last Update of the year, and what have we learned? Hopefully as little as possible; self-awareness is a curse, and as Calvin and Hobbes said when picking themselves up out the briar patch before hurling themselves down the hill […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is nearly there
Mark Polson is looking forward to the office Christmas party in this week’s #Update whilst also mulling over the flurry of activity from the FCA in recent days.
