TCWU minds all kinds of gaps

Mark discusses over-eager marketing claims and the gap between that hype and what a product or service actually does.
The Top Class Wednesday Update does not like being treated like a hotel

Ian’s in the TCWU chair this week with a PR Guide for Teenagers (and perhaps for financial services firms too).
The Top Class Wednesday Update knows kung-fu

This week Mark has been doing some platform market analysis.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is flipping heart shaped pancakes

Ben reflects on our Regenerate event last week, shares thoughts on Nucleus’ latest acquisition and points you to our latest State Of The Advice Nation report.
The Top Class Wednesday Update doesn’t see any intelligence at all

AI, Space Karen and Skynet. This week’s TCWU’s got it all going on. Mark considers whether AI is a threat or an opportunity for advisers and planners.
The Top Class Wednesday Update has a big week ahead

We’ll get to business in a moment, siblings, but before we do I know you’ll indulge me when I say Very Good Things will be happing in 7 days’ time.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is being written by the newbie

New boy Ben Hammond covers simplified advice being given the boot and some recent impacts of private equity ownership of platforms.
The Top Class Wednesday Update says consensus works

This week we venture to Pensionsland, not for the lulz but to highlight an interesting skirmish led by our own pensions simian Lord McPhail of The Shires.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is a fan of change

Hello, hello, back again. After having done something like 150 of these Updates, it’s a wonderful thing to have a team that can not only dep on Update duty from time to time, but even volunteers for it sometimes. I mean, there was Mike before – celebrating his 7th birthday with us this very day […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update would have put a bit more on it

So I was going to have a week off the Update, but it’s been a busy old week and so I thought I’d jot down a couple of musings on the news of the day, or yesterday when you read this. No, not a tall man slapping a slightly shorter man in the face. Before […]