Who Manages the Managers?
Having run supervision workshops for so many Senior Managers over the years, I would be…
Author Julia Kirkland
Julia Kirkland
Julia Kirkland, Head of FSTP Limited FSTP is now part of ZISHI and OSTC Group
5 Conduct Questions – Conducting ourselves properly?
In 2019 the FCA embarked on engagement work entitled 5 Conduct Question Programme, an exercise…
Unintended consequences
Here, now 3 months into the COVID outbreak in the UK what are the issue…
Strange new world
Of course, the phrase is normally Brave New World, however, as I write events seem…
Guardians of the galaxy??
The financial crisis was in 2008 and as I’m getting older that seems only very…
Who is the ACD and why do they matter to retail investors?
If you are investing in a pension or hold a stocks and shares ISA the…
When a PROD in the right direction is required
I heard a very interesting anecdote a couple of weeks ago about a large asset…
How do we measure ‘value for money’?
I expect when all of us buy something, we ask ourselves “does this represent value…
Learning the lessons of history
I watched the film “The Big Short” again in the run up to the festive…
Am I an information giver?
Imagine you are sitting in a large auditorium waiting for a Portfolio Manager from a…