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Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail

The lang cat‘s Tom McPhail talks with industry experts and insiders about pensions and investments, regulation, technology, politics and policy-making . Grown-up financial services insights for people who work here. Tom is one of the industry‘s leading experts on pensions and retirement for over 20 years and former Head of Policy for the FTSE100 firm Hargreaves Lansdown. You can also find him on Twitter as @pensionsmonkey

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44:59

Bridging the financial guidance gap

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2024/03/01

In which Robert and Charlie from Money Guided talk about how to help people manage their money better

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33:01

A long-term savings commission

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2024/02/26

Andrew Tully from Nucleus on why we need a long-term savings commission

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19:25

How do we fix pension transfers?

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2024/01/19

...in Which Dave Henderson of Penny https://pennypension.com and I offer a couple of suggestions for how to make pension transfers work better

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32:33

The Gregg McClymont episode

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2024/01/14

...in which Gregg talks to me about pension investments in infrastructure and politics from the viewpoint of an ex-shadow pensions minister.

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57:29

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Advice...

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/12/19

The FCA's proposed solutions and consultation questions analysed with expert help from Nathan Long of Hargreaves Lansdown and Michael Lawrence of Bovill. You can also read Michael's thoughts here Advice Guidance Boundary Review puts transformative change on horizon - Bovill

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50:48

The expert view on pension dashboards

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/12/12

Richard Smith gives the expert's view on where we're at with the development of pension dashboards, drawing on years of experience in the UK and fresh insights from across Europe.

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21:59

How confident are we about retirement?

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/11/28

Andy Tully joins me to talk through the Nucleus research on retirement confidence; who's confident, who isn't and the factors that affect confidence. Clue: it's really important to have a plan...

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31:07

The Autumn Statement

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/11/24

Another big week for pensions policy, James Dowling helps me pick out the highlights.

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29:35

The Rishuffle and a look ahead to the Autumn Statement

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/11/15

Tom Selby of AJ Bell helps me try and make sense of the mother of all reshuffles and we make some moderately well-informed predictions about the forthcoming Autumn Statement

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43:35

The FCA’s Advice Guidance Boundary Review

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/11/08

What's happening with the FCA's review of advice and guidance and where might it take us? We're expecting an announcement in the near future; in the meantime, expert insight is provided by Michael Lawrence of Bovill | financial services regulatory consultancy in UK, Asia & Americas and Nathan Long of Hargreaves Lansdown | ISAs, pensions, funds and shares (hl.co.uk).

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33:16

What’s eating the platform sector?

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/09/26

'...the most bruising quarter we've ever seen for advised platforms', was how my colleague Rich described the latest update on platforms. So here we talk through what's going on...

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25:36

How Pot for Life could change auto-enrolment

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/09/19

As part of the solution to the small pots problem, the DWP is interested in Pot for Life. This has worked well in Australia and could lead to Auto-enrolment 2.0. This episode looks at what it is, how it could work and some of the challenges that would need to be dealt with.

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19:28

The Mansion House Reforms

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/07/13

A quick review of some of the highlights from the multiple policy papers on pension reform published by the government this week.

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22:18

Impending pension announcements, the FCA retirement...

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/07/01

A quick roundup of expected pensions policy announcements, a run through of the FCA's retirement advice review and the ongoing problems with pension transfersInvesting in the Future: Boosting Savings and Prosperity for the UK (institute.global) https://open.substack.com/pub/craigberry/p/is-it-time-to-let-the-pension-investment?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://open.substack.com/pub/craigberry/p/is-it-time-to-let-the-pension-investment-1f4?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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26:03

Labour, pensions, party conferences

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/06/22

What are Labour's plans for pensions and are we going to see a big bang scheme consolidation initiative? Tom Frackowiak from Cicero joins me to discuss these questions and also to talk about the alternative reality of political party conferences.

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26:02

Radical simplification of ISAs

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/06/05

AJ Bell are lobbying for a radical simplification of ISAs. Tom Selby explains why, and how it could work. You can also read more about it here AJ Bell calls for ISA overhaul in radical simplification of UK savings system | AJ Bell

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36:03

Life expectancy, Covid and what they mean for pensions

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/05/30

Stuart McDonald of LCP takes us on a brilliant canter through what's happening with life expectancy and longevity and the implications for pension provision. Link to Stuart's report, referenced in the podcast: https://www.lcp.uk.com/pensions-benefits/publications/longevity-report-2023-a-new-era-for-longevity-insights-to-tailor-your-journey/

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34:02

The Advice Gap

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/05/24

Mike Barrett and I explore the barriers to people getting more financial advice and we look at hybrid advice with Chet Velani of EV. You can download Mike's report here ADVICE GAP REPORT - the lang cat (langcatfinancial.co.uk)

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32:32

Making the most of Equity Release

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/04/24

The FCA is looking at Equity Release advice this year, as part of its retirement advice review. Jon Dunckley has written an independent review of the Equity Release market, looking at how the sector can evolve from here…

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15:11

FCA consultations on SMCR and product disclosures

Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail ·

2023/04/17

...in which my colleague Alison Gay explains why the FCA is consulting on SMCR; she also reveals a handy hack for consultation responses and we discuss PIMFAs recent suggestions for rethinking the disclosures regime.

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