Mike Barrett - the lang cat

Robo Wars

It’s a tough job putting our annual guides together. For both our recently published Guide to Direct Platform Investing and … Continued

September 22, 2018 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Investments #regulation

Can you remember what you were doing on 17 July 2017? If you work in platform land[1] chances are you … Continued

July 16, 2018 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Platforms #regulation

Today is a significant day for asset management in the UK. The Asset Management Market Study has taken a big … Continued

April 5, 2018 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Investments #regulation

Today’s announcement that, in the view of Judge Thomas Scott, HMRC have been incorrectly treating fund rebates as taxable could … Continued

The cat is officially out of the bag (not that we condone cats being in bags). One of the changes … Continued

January 21, 2018 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #Investments #regulation

So, happy new year and all that. First full week back. Yay. Whilst everyone was off eating/drinking/bravely battling #manflu (delete … Continued

January 12, 2018 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Investments #Platforms #regulation

The other week I had the pleasure of presenting in Birmingham to around 40 advisers. The session was a whistle … Continued

November 17, 2017 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Investments

It’s been an interesting week in robo-land 1. On Monday the latest set of accounts for Nutmeg were published. As … Continued

October 5, 2017 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Platforms

Another day, another FCA paper, this time the snappily titled Investment Platforms Market Study Terms of Reference (MS17/1.1 to its … Continued

July 17, 2017 by Mike Barrett | Posted in: #industry #Platforms #regulation

When the first release is so good there is always a danger it will be difficult to maintain momentum and … Continued