Mark Loosmore: Shooting for the moon

‘Aim high’

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As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, Mark Loosmore argues the financial sector should be no less ambitious as it strives to improve the technology that supports the advice process

As only someone who themselves were in outer space could have missed, 20 July marked the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first two humans on the moon. The momentous exchange between the Lunar Module ‘Eagle' from the Sea of Tranquility and the mission control centre in Houston was preceded by the infinitely less memorable, but nonetheless hugely important, exchange of process and check-lists between Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. The actual first recorded words spoken from the moon were: Aldrin: Contact Light. Armstrong: Shutdown. Aldrin: Oka...

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