

FTAdviser Podcast
FTAdviser
FTAdviser is the Financial Times’ specialist title dedicated to the UK financial advice profession. Each week one of our reporters will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss issues such how the latest regulatory developments will impact advice firms, how advised clients will be affected by the latest developments in pensions, investing, mortgages and tax, and how the financial advice profession will develop and grow. The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 11, 2019 • 17min
Ethical investing could become default for advisers
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Ed Smith, head of asset allocation research at Rathbones, and Alan Chan, a chartered financial planner at IFS Wealth and Pensions, discuss environmental, social and governance investing. They discuss whether ESG investing means having to accept lower returns, if it will ever become a default way of investing and what it actually means. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 4, 2019 • 22min
The future of AI
Robo-advisers have come and gone in recent years, creating debate in the industry over their profitability, whether they can be properly regulated and the standard of advice they produce. The latest FTAdviser Podcast examines how technology will improve the market for advice and whether true robo-advice will ever come to fruition.Guests Ben Taylor, chief technical officer at AI platform Rainbird, and Paul McNamara, chief executive of fintech group EValue, discuss the possibilities.The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 25, 2019 • 21min
"Building a Multi-asset portfolio in a low rates world"
The policies pursued since the financial crisis of record low interest rates and quantitative easing have usurped many of the traditional rules of asset allocation. The latest FTAdviser podcast examines how a multi-asset investor can navigate the new world of asset allocation.Guests David Jane, who runs a range of multi-asset portfolios at Miton, and Gary Waite from Walker Crips discuss the options for advisers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 18, 2019 • 11min
FCA file review showed contingent charging used in 80% of cases
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Edwin Schooling Latter, director of markets and wholesale policy at the Financial Conduct Authority, discussed the regulator’s proposal to introduce a contingent charging ban for defined benefit transfers, and other changes that will affect financial advisers work in this area. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 11, 2019 • 22min
Inverted yield curve: Is this time different?
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Seneca Investment's chief investment officer Peter Elston and FTAdviser's investment reporter, David Thorpe discuss what the inverted yield curve means and whether 'this time it is different'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 5, 2019 • 19min
Clarity from regulator needed on GMP transfers
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Paul McGlone, president of the Society of Pension Professionals, and Andrew Boyt, pension transfers specialist and freelance consultant, discuss how guaranteed minimum pensions is affecting financial advisers work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 1, 2019 • 14min
Platform growth to continue despite end of DB 'sugar rush'
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode, Mike Barrett, consulting director at the Lang Cat, and Paul Boston, director of sales at Novia, discuss how the slowdown of defined benefit transfer inflows will affect platforms, who platform profit margins are doing down and whether there is likely to be much innovation in the platform market. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 23, 2019 • 19min
Advisers could face bankruptcy over single claim
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In the latest episode, Keith Richards, chief executive of the Personal Finance Society, and Brian Boehmer, a partner at Lockton specialising in professional indemnity insurance, discuss how the hardening of the PII market is affecting advisers. They also discuss how advisers can navigate the PII market and how insurers are changing their policies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 16, 2019 • 16min
How the protection industry can better itself on mental health
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In the latest episode, Kathryn Knowles, managing director at Cura Financial Services, and Deepak Jobanputra, deputy CEO at Vitality, examine how the protection industry can better itself in terms of mental health. They also discuss whether medical underwriting can improve insurance for those living with mental health issues as well as how advisers can approach sometimes difficult topics effectively but emphatically. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 8, 2019 • 18min
Insistent clients pose ‘real challenge’ for advisers
The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Ian Browne, retirement expert at Old Mutual Wealth, and Paul Stocks, financial services director at Dobson & Hodge, discuss how advisers should deal with insistent clients, and the subjectivity that comes when analysing the cases of these consumers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.