Three State of the Advice Nation findings that took us by surprise
Amid all the data in the latest wave of SOTAN, there were a few results – from paraplanning to AI – that made us sit up and take notice.
So. That was #langcatlive REGENERATE
A little round up of useful information and links from our #langcatlive event REGENERATE on 8 February.
Have your say in State of the Advice Nation
State of the Advice Nation (SOTAN) is the lang cat’s flagship annual adviser research study and we’re in the throes of gathering the views of financial advice professionals for wave six.
The Top Class Wednesday Update says it’s better late than never
Fresh from a luxurious spa weekend, Steve shares some early insights from our annual State of the Advice Nation research.
How to get to better platform service: the lang cat view
We’ve decided to make service a key focus here at the lang cat. In the first of a three-part mini-series Steve talks us through some recent research findings.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is glad everything’s completely normal
Day five million in the Big Brother house, and the contestants have started to eat each other. “This is normal,” says Suella, gnawing on a thigh bone. “I’m struck by how well everything is working,” says Dominic, popping a juicy eyeball into his dry, blackened mouth. I’ve been looking for a long time for a […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update remembers Ian Taylor
Hi everyone, Mark here. Rich will be Updating you – albeit in a truncated form – in a moment, but first I think we need to take a moment to mark the end of an era with the desperately sad news of the passing of Ian Taylor, ex-CEO and co-founder of Transact, at only 58 […]
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 will accept being ambushed by cake
I mean, I’m not mad about cake to be honest, I’d rather be ambushed by an artisan-made craft sausage roll such as one may buy at Tebay, the most middle-class of all motorway services. But if you’re going to be ambushed and porky-pastries aren’t an option, it may as well be by cake. It reminds […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS THINKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANT STUFF
It’s been getting on for 4.5 years since I joined the lang cat and still I get caught out by some of the differences between England and Scotland. Not the obvious things, like weather or length of tenure in major sporting events, but smaller details like holidays. So, while England is head down hard at […]
