So today is TRAP Live, and we can't put out a show. Fear not, TRAPists, the live show is being recorded and will come out in two weeks, on 23rd May, Episode 45.

For the moment, here's a compilation of bits from previous episodes. Enjoy!

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In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discuss

• Topical issues, including the imminent TRAP Live event, superb service, FCA fee review update, Ultra’s new book (yes, really), Voice’s “planning” week, more Irish investment fraud
• Meat and Potatoes: Bricks and Torture
• Questions posted by our beloved TRAPist Patrick Duggan
• Culture Corner

Links referred to in the show:

• Meanwhile, service standards elsewhere are awful: https://www.ft.com/content/0a5d30ed-164f-4b9f-a049-fc9692219f79
• CW: Investment fraud https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0405/1441779-investment-fraud/
• NL: Leveraging Wealth: The Advice Amplified podcast with IFA Pete Ridlington.Property vs. Equity: Tej Singh: https://pca.st/736pxk89
• Keeper Security over LastPass? https://www.keepersecurity.com/en_GB/ H/T to Jon Doyle www.twitter.com/juniper_jon
• Diary of a CEO - Jimmy Carr: "I've Found The Cure For My Anxiety!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLAazKUU68
• CW: David McWilliams Podcast - interview with Michael Lewis re SBF https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-david-mcwilliams-podcast/id1462649946?i=1000651097893
• AS - Brett Davidson newsletter https://fpadvance.com/blog/

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In this latest pile of TRAP, the Trap Pack discuss

• Topical issues, including Paddy Andrews Métis Norway appt, US$90 trillion to move between generations, surge meeting review, SPIVA S&P Global, the passing of Danny Kahneman, another unregulated investment scheme goes belly up, Ali Hussain in the Sunday Times on adviser fee refunds
• Meat and Potatoes: AI
• Questions posted by our beloved TRAPists www.twitter.com/@SamColbyButcher and https://www.linkedin.com/in/janemcaleese
• Culture Corner

Links referred to in the show:

• CW: Paddy Andrews appointed Director at Metis Ireland: https://businessplus.ie/news/metis-ireland-paddy-andrews/
• NRL: 4 million US citizens will turning 65 every year until 2030. “A study from Knight Frank details that over $90 trillion in assets will move between generations over the next 20 years.”: https://www.morningstar.com/financial-advice/record-number-americans-are-turning-65-thats-great-news-financial-advisors?utm_source=eloqua&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_advisordigest&utm_content=52931
• AH surge meeting season over, thoughts, reflection, points to note.
• CW: Would a round table of active fund managers say the same? https://citywire.com/new-model-adviser/news/do-etf-bosses-invest-in-their-own-products/a2439481?re=118846&refea=1287904
• AH - Spiva S&P Global - https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/research-insights/spiva/
• NRL: “For all his knowledge of how foolish investors can be, Danny didn’t try to outsmart the market. “I don’t try to be clever at all,” he told me. Most of his money was in index funds. “The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion,” he said.
• “All of us would be better investors,” he often said, “if we just made fewer decisions.” Jason Zweig (paywall) article on the late Danny Kahneman: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/daniel-kahneman-behavioral-economics-270c9797?mod=djintinvestor_t
• CW: Solar 21 going pear-shaped despite “ray of light” last summer: https://www.independent.

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