The Top Class Wednesday Update is up for a frisky few months
Mark is back and Updating us this week.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is haring about the place
The end of the tax year, reanimation of pension dashboards and finfluencers are on Mark’s mind this week.
The Top Class Wednesday Update doesn’t do emotional outflows
In a January marked by redundancies, distribution challenge, margin squeeze and general tetchiness, Mark reflects on the state of the platform market.
The Top Class Wednesday Update basks in the sun
Let’s open our textbooks at L for LV=, which has just announced its long-in-the-making partnership with Embark. Meanwhile, others are adding house funds.
The Top Class Wednesday Update works on all operating systems
Big week this week with abrdn’s AdviserOS announcement and news that M&G finally managed to get the PruFund range up on its platform.
Tackling the advice gap: One solution at a time
Understanding the advice gap comes down to two important questions: what is stopping most people from seeking advice, and what do we do about it?
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS JUST A SHOT AWAY
My favourite story about Charlie Watts is that apparently during the recording of one of the Rolling Stones’ less celebrated albums in the mid-1970s, he was, er, exploring the further reaches of pharmaceutical assistance and was sleeping the effects off on the floor of the studio. He was woken up by Keith Richards who told […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE GETS CURIOUS ABOUT CASH
Eagle-eyed TCWU readers may have spotted that last week we told you normal service would resume today with Mr P firmly back at the helm of the Update. But fear not friends, our dear leader is not MIA, he’s just STILL on holiday. And in the meantime the Update stops for nothing or no one […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE JUST NEEDED SOME EXERCISE
There’s really just one subject to cover this week; one news story that will run and run and drown out everything else until you’re completely fed up. That story is, of course, the sale of Ascentric to M&G by Royal London. Ho, ho. There was nothing you could do about the weary inevitability of that […]
