THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE HAS JUST ABOUT RECOVERED  - The Lang Cat Mark reflects on HomeGame 4, has another think about consolidation and the imminent FCA review.

In the #Update this week, @theactualpolson.bsky.social is talking sheet butter, #HomeGame4 and consolidators, following the FCA announcement of an advice market consolidation review. Read all about it over on our website.

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And that is how we do that. Thank you to everyone. #langcatlive #HomeGame4 is over.

And thanks to all #HomeGame4 attendees and streamers, our beautiful venue Patina, the Parallel Blue team, our photographer Rich Dyson, and all the lang cats. Don't forget to donate to our charity partner Samaritans Scotland

It’s been a brilliant afternoon, see you at our next #langcatlive event!

That's all folks for our #HomeGame4 live event! We'd like to say a big thank you to our sponsors for making it possible: FNZ, MorningStar Wealth and Fundment as well as abrdn, Aegon, Aviva Wealth and L&G.

Also thanks to all our amazing speakers.

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Our final session focuses on tech: what (and who) is it good for? Katey Pigden asks Max Anderson of Wealthspace, Jen Paice of AC Wealth and Alastair Conway of FNZ if advisers now have to be into tech in a big way to deliver good client outcomes.

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Joseph Williams from ZeroKey, the winner of our #AdviceTechCatwalk event earlier this year, give us a demo and update on what they’ve been building.

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Returning to the stage with another portion of stats, Steve Nelson and Rich Major look at where advice professionals would invest the time they lose to poor service if they could get it back.

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The second part of our big debate gives small planning practices their right of reply. Natalie Holt is joined by Headsup Wealth's Benjamin Mitchell and Joyful Wealth's Jo Wall to hear how small firms stand up to the big brands.

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The first part of our big debate puts consolidation under the microscope and challenges the view that big brands are not good for clients. Mark Polson is joined by Benchmark Capital's Ed Dymott and Carbon Financial's Gordon Wilson.

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Our charity partner for #HomeGame4 is Samaritans Scotland. If you'd like to donate, you can text SAMARITANS followed by your donation amount to 70560 to give that amount. Texts will cost the donation amount plus one standard network rate message.

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Now the lang cat's Steve Nelson and Rich Mayor return with our State of the Advice Nation findings on where firms see their business ownership in five years’ time, including where consolidators are in the mix.

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Next on stage, the lang cat's Natalie Holt with two firms taking a very different approach to bringing through the next wave of advice talent, Cairn Independent's Laura Young, and SJP Wealth Academy's Gee Foottit.

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Back on stage, the lang cat's Steve Nelson and Rich Mayor with some stats on the UK advice market to take us into the next session.

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Our first session looks at what’s going on in financial services from a Scottish perspective. Our Tom McPhail is joined by Sandy Begbie from Scottish Financial Enterprise, Alastair Ross from the ABI, Kirsty Watson from abrdn and Jenny Holt from Phoenix.

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And our #HomeGame4 event is live! Mark Polson, Steve Nelson and Rich Mayor take to the stage at Patina in Edinburgh.

Thanks to our sponsors for helping to make this happen: FNZ, MorningStar Wealth and Fundment, as well as abrdn, Aegon, Aviva Wealth and L&G.

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We're hosting an exclusive mini #AdviceTechCatwalk before we kick off #HomeGame4 at midday, hosted by the lang cat's Mark Polson, with demos from Max Anderson of Wealthspace, Joseph Twigg of Aveni, and John Blackman of FNZ and Roland Whye of Nokkel.

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A big fuck off lang cat banner with Jenny in front of it.

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Let's - quite literally - do this

What to expect from HomeGame 4 - The Lang Cat HomeGame 4 will soon be upon us. Expect the focus to be on new talent, the shape of advice and Scotland, obviously.

Our panel has had first dibs on free tickets to HomeGame 4, now they are open to all advice professionals - advisers, planners, admin, compliance and paraplanners.

More info and tickets here: thelangcat.co.uk/what-to-expe...

See you all there

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