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FTAdviser Podcast

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

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36:43

Where next for ESG?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/07/07

The year 2020 was a landmark one in lots of ways, including for ESG investing - if for no other reason than it finally put to bed the idea that you need to choose between investing ethically and investing for performance.But where next for ESG? In this podcast, sponsored by BMO Global Asset Management, FTAdviser digital editor Damian Fantato takes a look at what the future might hold for these mandates. He is joined by Keith Balmer and Simon Holmes, portfolio managers at BMO, and David Macdonald,

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38:10

Will private equity change platforms?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/07/02

Private equity interest in adviser platforms has continued to grow over the past year or so.Recently Novia, James Hay and Parmenion have all been bought by private equity firms and according to analysis by the Lang Cat, the proportion of platform assets owned by private equity has gone up from 2 per cent in 2016 to 15 per cent in 2021. Meanwhile life companies, which have traditionally owned platforms, have fallen from 55 per cent to 17 per cent over the same time period.So what does this mean for

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39:59

Talking Point: Finding value in sustainable portfolios

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/30

The steep rise in popularity of sustainable investment solutions has led to a similar rise in valuations in many of the qualifying asset classes.On top of this many of the companies which address environmental or social problems tend to be technology businesses - which are more attractive for their growth characteristics rather than for their value.In this special episode of the FTAdviser Podcast, sponsored by Schroders, special projects editor David Thorpe talks to a panel of experts about where to

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27:26

Pensions: desperately seeking solutions

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/28

The self-employed - and particularly younger gig economy workers - desperately need some solid pension solutions to help them make long-term provision for their retirement.Joining Simoney Kyriakou, senior editor for FTAdviser, are some of the pensions world’s great and good: Jamie Jenkins, director of policy and external affairs for Royal London; Jonathan Greer, head of retirement policy at Quilter; and Nigel Peaple, Director of Policy & Advocacy for the Pension and Lifetime Savings

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37:28

Joining the advice profession during a pandemic

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/25

Finding new clients at any time in a financial adviser’s working life can be a challenge, but imagine having to do that at the beginning of your career, at the start of the lockdown last year.This week, deputy features editor Ima Jackson-Obot talks to Emma Prince, an adviser at Quilter Financial Advisers, who previously worked in banking, and James Wallace from David James Wealth, a former pensions lawyer, about their first year as financial advisers - which happened to coincide with a global

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23:09

Keith Richards on his time at the PFS and what comes...

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/18

This week the FTAdviser Podcast speaks to Keith Richards, the chief executive of the Personal Finance Society, who will be standing down at the end of this month after nearly nine years in the role.During this time he was involved in the Financial Advice Market Review process, he established the PFS's pro-bono advice schemes and helped set up the European Financial Planning Association.He joins FTAdviser digital editor Damian Fantato to discuss his time at the PFS and what comes next for the

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34:37

Why advisers are looking to ITs for income

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/14

This FTAdviser In Focus podcast aims to do two things: to look at the reason why investment trusts have proved to be good income plays for pension investors, and to understand why the investment trust universe can provide sustainable long-term returns.Joining Simoney Kyriakou, senior editor of FTAdviser, on this podcastis Annabel Brodie-Smith, communications director for the Association of Investment Companies;Tim Morris,financial adviser at Russell & Co; and Simon Clements, manager of the

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20:13

Do pension reform proposals go far enough to help...

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/11

The government is looking to make it mandatory for providers to issue simpler statements for certain defined contribution pension schemes used as part of auto-enrolment.But as the proposals stop short of making providers include costs and charges, there still remains disparity across the industry.This week reporter Amy Austin is joined by Claire Trott, head of pensions strategy at St James’s Place, and Jessica List, pensions technical manager at Curtis Banks, to discuss the impact of these

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34:04

Your property is not your pension. Or is it?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/07

Property investment - be it buy-to-let or commercial property funds - has had a rough time over the past few years. Questions over the liquidity not just of pure bricks and mortar but also issues with daily dealing property unit trusts have caused a lot of concern to investors. There have been fund suspensions following the Brexit vote in 2016 and then again in 2020 as Covid bit into market valuations.And there has been so much tax twiddling that buy-to-let as an investment has become unattractive

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19:20

How the FCA's new duty of care might affect advisers

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/04

The Financial Conduct Authority has published proposals for what it calls a "new consumer duty" which it says will set clearer and higher expectations for firms' standards of care towards consumers.The regulator has said it is concerned about firms providing information which is misleading or difficult to understand, and products or services which don't represent value. It says it wants firms to ask themselves 'would I be happy if I were treated like this?' or 'would I recommend this service to my

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34:54

Rectifying Redress for Transfer Victims

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/06/01

Victims of defined benefit transfer misadvice are facing a double whammy when it comes to compensation calculations.According to campaigners supporting those who have been found by the regulators and compensatory bodies to have been wrongly advised to transfer out, not only do they face wildly differing levels of compensation, depending on when the calculations are carried out, but they also have to bear all the investment risk themselves.This FTAdviser In Focus podcast looks at why the calculation

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27:10

Will the FCA's plans to fix open-ended property funds...

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/05/28

Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, famously said open-ended funds which invest in illiquid assets are "built on a lie". This has been particularly evident with property funds, which have been forced to open and close themselves to redemptions repeatedly over the past few years, first in response to Brexit and then because of the coronavirus pandemic.To fix this this the Financial Conduct Authority has proposed a new type of fund: the long-term asset fund, which have "liquidity

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25:22

How Biden's presidency is affecting global markets

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/05/21

Joe Biden has now marked more than 100 days of his term as President of the United States. While he has been a lot quieter on Twitter than his predecessor, that is not for a lack of activity.President Biden has signed a $1.9tn stimulus package, put together a $2tn package of infrastructure spending and unveiled a $1.8tn package of reforms on issues such as healthcare and labour laws.By common consensus, Biden is governing more radically than he campaigned. So what does this mean for investors and

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24:24

How advisers can make the most of data

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/05/14

One of the clichés of the 21st century is to say data is the new oil but, like a lot of clichés, there's a kernel of truth in there struggling to come out. Indeed companies like Facebook have turned data into an awful lot of money and an awful lot of controversy.But what does this mean for advisers? How can they put the data they hold to good use to improve the service they offer? And what are the pitfalls?This week FTAdviser digital editor Damian Fantato is joined by Nick Eatock, chief executive of

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23:00

What's the future for income investing?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/05/07

Exceptionally low interest rates, a high level of economic uncertainty and elevated valuations across multiple asset classes have combined with the Covid-19 pandemic to make this a tricky time for all investors, but particularly for those looking for an income.Many companies cut their dividends as they faced the uncertainty of the pandemic, withShellcutting its dividend for the first time since the Second World War. Overall, UK dividends fell by 54 per cent between April and June.This week FTAdviser

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17:17

What next for the pension advice allowance?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/04/30

The government has said it will be reviewing the pension advice allowance - which was introduced following the Financial Advice Market Review to help close the advice gap - after most major providers said they either didn't offer it or saw little or no interest.Pensions minister Guy Opperman has admitted the allowance, currently set at £1,500 over three years, was "too low to get an efficacious outcome" and said he was now working with HM Treasury to see if it could be improved.This week reporter

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30:08

Making sense of IR35

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/04/27

Millions of Britons are being affected by "ill-thought-out rules, which have come into force for the private sector.Whether these are freelancers, concerned about how the rule might be assessed, or businesses worried about how they assess the tax status of every freelance contractor they hire, IR35 has posed problems for both advisers and their clients.Joining Simoney Kyriakou, senior editor of FTAdviser, to talk about what the new rules mean for contractors, clients and for advice firms themselves,

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21:06

Should the FCA scrap the 10% drop rule?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/04/23

Earlier this year the Financial Conduct Authority announced plans to review the controversial 10 per cent drop rule, which was introduced by Mifid II in 2018 and means clients must be informed when their portfolios drop by 10 per cent or more.The rule has been suspended since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic due to increased market volatility, a suspension which the FCA has said will continue until the end of 2021.But now the UK has left the European Union, what should the FCA do about this

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31:20

FAMR five years on - can the advice gap be closed?

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/04/16

Last month marked five years since the final report of the Financial Advice Market Review was published.The review was commissioned by HM Treasury to find measures to close the advice gap and enable the development of affordable and accessible financial advice - but in the five years since not much has changed and by some measures the advice gap has actually grown. And earlier this year the government was forced to admit one of the measures introduced following the review - the pensions advice

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34:50

Why UK tax policy on pensions is not working

FTAdviser Podcast ·

2021/04/13

Pensions taxation in the UK has been tinkered around with for years. Over the decades, different laws have shaped pensions legislation, making what should be a simple concept – helping people to save more for their retirement – extremely complicated.With this in mind, Simoney Kyriakou, senior editor of FTAdviser, spoke with three industry specialists to ask them to think the unthinkable about pensions. If they were chancellor, what changes would they make and why? Joining FTAdviser In Focus on this

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