SJP and the ongoing advice saga
Beyond what’s happening at SJP, there are bigger, tougher questions for the advice profession to answer on ongoing advice and fair value.
FCA: The way forward for advice and guidance
FCA head of consumer investments Kate Blatchford-Hick on the regulator’s ideas to get advice and guidance to more people.
The Top Class Wednesday Update can also sit in a chair
There’s a huge gap (hey, good name for a report) between what people who’ve had real advice and planning think about it and what those who haven’t think about it.
The Top Class Wednesday Update has only just recovered
If you’ll be so kind, I want to use this update to reflect on a few aspects of our Home Truths event that really stuck out for me.
The Top Class Wednesday Update gives out more energy than it takes in
Nearly there, everyone, nearly there. It’s dark and it’s cold and there’s as much as three inches of snow in parts of England so obviously it’s snowmageddon. I was reminded recently when daydreaming of escaping to Finland of this rundown of what proper Finnish weather is: +15°C / 59°F – This is as warm as […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is worried about France in the quarter finals
Greetings. Hope you are all well. Mike here, keeping the TCWU wheel turning for another week. Big news from the FCA today, with the release of the snappily titled, “Broadening access to financial advice for mainstream investments” consultation paper. This is something that has been trailed for a while now, with Money Marketing reporting on […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is on the edge
Hello again, welcome to your autumn but go easy on the heating. I have a couple of announcements this week, but the main one is that the Update is now denominated in dollars and so will cost you just a little more each month, but that’s a small price to pay for growth, amirite? Almost […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is happy to be proved wrong
Steve here, subbing in for Mark. It’s been a while. How’s it going? I’ve had a book kicking about the bedroom for months now, How to be wrong by that polarising fella off the Twitter, James O’Brien. Just never got round to starting it. Those algorithmically-driven midnight YouTube death spirals aren’t going to watch themselves […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update feels your ennui
Well, we’re in it now. 22% inflation, anyone? And the solution is…to drill more oil wells which might be operational in 25 years’ time. I think the only rational response here is either to go round blindfolded and ear-plugged in an attempt to avoid all this, or to get absolutely stocious and watch Mikael Gorbachev’s […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is fighting inlfation
Happy Wednesday everybody, if indeed it is a happy Wednesday. I’m struck today by the cover of City AM, which isn’t usually required reading in the fine port of Leith, but which is when it looks like this. No doubt that things are tough, but your faithful Update is doing its bit to fight inflation […]
