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 […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is immune to cancellation
This feels…unusual. If an Update falls in an inbox and Mark hasn’t palmed it off on someone else to do, is it even an Update? We may never know, but in the meantime here I am back again after three weeks off Update duty, and it appears that everything has got even more appalling and […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is burying its head in sweet, sweet data
Hi folks, it’s yours truly, Rich Mayor at the TCWU helm this week, which means it’s time to have a little look at how last quarter went and, hopefully, a brief distraction from just HOW DAMN HOT it is. We’re tantalisingly close to being able to share what’s happened on an individual basis at platforms […]
Consumer Duty: Cut out and keep guide
The FCA has published the final rules for the Consumer Duty, the implementation period has been confirmed, and it is over to you dear adviser/platform/asset manager/tech supplier (delete as appropriate) to make the necessary changes. The good news is, as you would expect, we’ve got your back. We’ve been busy with our own readiness program […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is looking over its glasses at the SIPP market
Hello, I’m Tom. Not the previous Tom who’s written this update and is famous for his height and pensions knowledge, but Tom of the Ellis variety who’s considerably less well-known for his pensions wisdom and more for his editorship of Professional Adviser in a past life. Even with my limited pensions wisdom, it’s not escaped […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is merry and bright*
*conditions apply And so this is it, siblings – the last Update of 2021. I think we all know not much work is going to be done next week, not least because the kids (at least up here) are breaking up on Friday and so we are all set for one of the least tolerable […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update loves a long launch
Happy December everyone, a couple of deep breaths and it’ll soon be time to have a break and wave goodbye to another pretty minging year. In the meantime, though, we have new Stuff to think about and play with! This doesn’t happen so often these days; I remember a time not all that long ago […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE HAS A MAGNETIC BACK NOW
It is, in a way, reassuring that even in these troubled times, Californian billionaires still find new ways to get us to buy very slightly different versions of things we have already. Human nature is still intact. Speaking of human nature, last week’s Update sparked a near-unprecedented flurry of various interested parties and observers taking […]
