Hugo Thorman

@AbrahamOnMoney Yes indeed Abraham....enjoying the ‘mission’! And you too I hope?

@HugoThorman 👊🏿 Hope all is well with you.

Financial advice in the UK relies on expensive, archaic, and fragmented technology, with firms often paying for five or more tools that rarely talk to each other, in order to deliver comprehensive advice to their clients. We’re on a mission to fix this. timelineapp.co/blog/its-time-…

I wish I’d written this! Well done The Economist...

@heatherahopkins Enjoy it Heather. Nothing can beat a good scull on a sunny evening!

@OpenMoney_ajm The Economist has an opinion.... I agree on this one.... just one c.u. after another....

I’m one of the few who thinks the Economist plays with a straight(ish) bat. This makes the last couple of paragraphs in this weeks leader more damming. #incompetence

@Financial_Orbit As expected they use the same system which narrowed the field....a good outcome for Ascentric...

UK RNS today #3 - M&G - Royal London today announces the sale of its platform business, Ascentric, to M&G plc. £14bn AUA Provident Financial - 'Vanquis Bank adapted well to Covid-19...Customer spending has contracted... but take-up of payment holidays has been modest'

@JackGilbert13 So much for the ‘bad publicity’ from Woodford....didn’t even blink...

Hargreaves announces pretty strong trading update in light of the crisis Adds £4bn net inflows in the 4 month period 94,000 new customers join says many topped up or joined to buy the dip in March

@clivewaller They heard you had some Greene King IPA

You never know who you’ll meet walking in the Hampshire hills. These calves were extremely friendly!

@clivewaller @Profadviser Just think of how many sessions we have to make up Clive!

Hugo Thorman: Don't let lockdown be a digital blip professionaladviser.com/4014507/ via @profadviser One of the tragedies of lockdown is missing out on a pint or two with Hugo and enjoying his wise musings

@heatherahopkins @93_smithereens Yes all too true Heather. We should be better. Even with a full set of REST APIs @SecclTech it only becomes a little easier...all our potential partners in integration will need to build something and we need to build webhooks ...but progress towards your dream is being made😁

@clivewaller Yes not necessarily to be expected Clive. Fact is that the market is becoming a little constricted!

CMA blocks FNZ purchase of GBST financialplanningtoday.co.uk/news/item/1143… Wow!

@theactualpolson Yes it is depressing Mark how the real impact of a few bps additional charge is just not appreciated by educated people. Assumption being that anyone with surplus assets is reasonably educated! So we will have to wait for a truly competitive market ...!

I see SJP is really toiling with AUA only up 22% in the last year and 2.1% net inflows in the last quarter. British investors still clearly massively price conscious. *coughs*