Alright you lot, it’s Steve here subbing in for the right honourable Mr Polson, who is off work navigating a nasty bout of the East-of-Scotland-despite-being-double-jabbed-covid. He’s at home with the family consuming a ferocious volume of Lucozade and Netflix and […]
Author Archives: Sam
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Nov
Nov
Sigh. After many months of being careful, I started to do stuff again last week. Edinburgh is generally pretty risk averse and most folk wear masks in shops and so on, but not at lunch events like the one I […]
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Sep
Sep
I took no pleasure in that Bond joke. There are some things you just have to grit your teeth and get on with. And when you work in finance and someone releases a Bond film lasting nearly three hours, a […]
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Aug
Aug
Mr P has somehow wangled another holiday, so I’m in charge of the Update again. And luckily for me, not one, but two industry behemoths came good with some news. The kids are alright First up, Hargreaves Lansdown reported record […]
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Jul
Jul
So you might think that I’d start this week’s Update with some amusing whimsy about Polson as a surname and how it relates to Yussuf Poulsen, the second-string Danish striker; claim some Danish heritage and all that sort of thing. […]
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Jun
Jun
Our due diligence reg tech tool Platform Analyser has been going for a while now (16 months to be precise), and that means we’re compiling lots of lovely data that we can play with and interrogate. Among the insights we’re […]
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Oct
Oct
Reading the FCA’s Project Innovate feedback statement over a cup of tea this morning triggered some lively debate at lang cat port authority about life, the universe and how financial services has changed (or not, depending on your point of […]
Mark Polson has been talking to Emma Wall at Morningstar on fund fees and the pension charge cap. As part of Morningstar’s ongoing ‘ask the expert’ video series. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. What are fund fees? What […]
I spent most of this morning attempting to read and absorb the FCA’s PS14/9 Review of the client assets regime for investment business: Feedback to CP13/5 and final rules. I say attempting because, at 410 pages long and packed with […]
Today (13 May 2014) The FCA published the outcome of a thematic review into how fund charges are presented to customers. I encourage you to read it here. It’s only 13 pages long, including the covers and all that, and […]
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