“Google, Facebook and Amazon face new UK regulator”

Apr 7, 2021 | Digital

In the 70s and ‘80s, financial services was the Wild West. Anyone could flog pensions and savings plans, thousands did and earned lots of commission and the life insurance companies made fortunes. Now, we’re regulated down to the number and shape of full stops we can put in our incredibly detailed suitability reports. Though if you’re happy to move south or east and work somewhere sunny, there are plenty of expat opportunities to sell savings plans and earn lots of commission without all the fuss. And so it will be with the internet. We’ll regulate the heck out of it, the Wild West will move further south and east and become someone else’s problem.

Read more here

james yarema rZLIRuBW6Ac unsplash scaled
“The tech winners and losers of the pandemic”

“The tech winners and losers of the pandemic”

Although ethical/sustainable funds eschew fossil fuels, arms and fags, they are more often than not ‘tech heavy’, investing in the Industries of the Future. Most dropped Meta/Facebook when the degree to which they may or may not have been stalking us all became apparent.