Mark Polson: Go on, say 'join the conversation' one more time...

"Go on, say 'join the conversation' one more time..."

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Otherwise reasonable man Mark Polson is going to stamp on the foot of the next person who says 'engagement' when they mean something else entirely...

So one of the nice things about my job is that you get to go and speak to interesting people sometimes. Last week I had just such a chance at a session hosted by SSP, the back office provider, to speak alongside Sammedia, whose Moneyinfo tool provides clever aggregation so individuals and advisers can see all a client's financial Stuff in one place. The audience was an eclectic mix of corporate advisers and employee benefits professionals. We talked about big data, and agreed the term was pretty stupid. We talked about the importance of aggregation, and the need to avoid fragmenta...

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