The Top Class Wednesday Update doesn’t want a flyer
It’s Edinburgh Festival time up here, so we’re all in a foul mood. Will the FCA booting the mooted ‘core investment advice’ regime into touch help?
The Top Class Wednesday Update prepares hatches for battening
SJP and 1825 have both been in the news this week with chunky value write downs. Is that cold east wind starting to blow?
The Top Class Wednesday Update has re-entry issues
Consumer Duty day is coming. Meantime mucking around with pension death benefits is going on again and Space Karen has gone X.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is going to have a sunburned nose and she’s not happy about it
Alison Gay looks at how The Financial Services and Markets Act replaces retained EU law with a ‘Smarter Regulatory Framework’. We’ll see.
The Top Class Wednesday Update doesn’t do unsubstantiated attention seeking headlines
Tom McPhail takes us through the Mansion House Reforms and a blizzard of policy papers on pension schemes, retail disclosures and investment pathways.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is interested in interest
With interest rates at their highest since 2008, Mark looks at what it all means for advisers, their clients and the platforms that serve them.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is always obliging
There’s a clear two-speed market developing around the provision of VFM assessments, target market stuff and other Consumer Dutery data.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is always at your service
Our recent research is clear. Service is the number one determining factor of satisfaction and frustration with providers among the advice profession.
The Top Class Wednesday Update had one of those days
This week’s Update is written In The Field, live and in living colour from the intelliflo conference in fashionable London. Wealthlink is here.
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.
