Apples and oranges
Last week I wrote nice things about Fidelity and their transparent disclosure of fund manager rebates. This week I find myself back wrestling opacity again, and it reminds me how difficult it is to perform meaningful comparisons between old and new world. To many people outside the platformerati (you’re welcome) with highly-evolved scepticism, platforms are […]
High Fidelity
Well, this is a turn-up for the books. Fidelity FundsNetwork (the SPECTRE of fund supermarkets to Skandia’s SMERSH) has announced that it’s going to start publishing the rebates it receives from fund managers. Money Marketing has the skinny here. A couple of things jump to mind: Well done. Yes, Fiddy would have had to do […]
High Fidelity
Well, this is a turn-up for the books. Fidelity FundsNetwork (the SPECTRE of fund supermarkets to Skandia’s SMERSH) has announced that it’s going to start publishing the rebates it receives from fund managers. Money Marketing has the skinny here. A couple of things jump to mind: Well done. Yes, Fiddy would have had to do […]
FSA Says We’re Rubber, You’re Glue, It Bounces Off Us And Sticks To You
Now that was a paper and a half. PS11/9 will, I think, in time be seen as a watermark in terms of what FSA have to say about those who try to screw with them. In fact, if you enter a secret code when you download the paper, there’s an extra page at the back […]
FSA Says We’re Rubber, You’re Glue, It Bounces Off Us And Sticks To You
Now that was a paper and a half. PS11/9 will, I think, in time be seen as a watermark in terms of what FSA have to say about those who try to screw with them. In fact, if you enter a secret code when you download the paper, there’s an extra page at the back […]
The irresistible decline of provider extranets?
Just a short post, inspired by a piece I saw recently from a platform user. His thing was that other than trading, he used very little of the reporting or client management functionality that his chosen platform bundled in (he happened to use CoFunds but it could’ve been anyone). Instead of relying on the platform […]
The irresistible decline of provider extranets?
Just a short post, inspired by a piece I saw recently from a platform user. His thing was that other than trading, he used very little of the reporting or client management functionality that his chosen platform bundled in (he happened to use CoFunds but it could’ve been anyone). Instead of relying on the platform […]
That, Mr Anderson, is the sound of inevitability
Agent Smith’s words to Neo might have a special resonance to public sector workers this week as they stand bravely, Canute-style in the face of pensions reform. The argument is too much, too soon, and we’ve already moved to a sustainable basis. But the truth is that the public don’t want their servants to have […]
That, Mr Anderson, is the sound of inevitability
Agent Smith’s words to Neo might have a special resonance to public sector workers this week as they stand bravely, Canute-style in the face of pensions reform. The argument is too much, too soon, and we’ve already moved to a sustainable basis. But the truth is that the public don’t want their servants to have […]
He Who Must Not Be Named (For Copyright Reasons) & The Curse Of The IMA Sectors
As the sprawling and increasingly desperate Franchise That Would Not Die limps towards its close, I find myself pondering the power of naming. As any fule or fan of the spotty wizard kno, naming something gives you power over it, or calls it into being. This is roughly the same post-structuralist Weltanschauung that led Ferdinand […]
