FTAdviser Podcast

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In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast Amy Austin looks at the evolving landscape of private equity consolidation in the financial advice industry. She chats to independent strategic adviser Tony Spain and CEO of Woven Advice Nicky Sevel, who tell her PE firms are now more focused on adding value through efficiency and vertical integration due to the rising valuations and interest rates.

During our teenage years, core beliefs are developed and nurtured - beliefs about ourselves and ways of understanding the world; ways of navigating the transition into adulthood and the development of resilience. And amidst all this are fundamental concepts about financial aptitude: saving, spending, long-term planning. But how much are young people being included in conversations about wealth and attitudes to money? How can you he...

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The income yield available on fixed income assets is likely to be the main driver of returns this year as bond yields won’t fall much further - that was the verdict of the guests on the latest FT Adviser podcast. 

David Thorpe, senior investment editor at FT Adviser, discusses the outlook for fixed income portfolios in the year ahead with Damien Hill, strategic bond fund manager at BNY Melon Investments, and Sotirios Nakos,...

Financial advisers are well aware of risk aversion or a tendency to double down. But there is a fast-growing branch of financial therapy that leans more towards psychotherapy - or talk therapy - than to the theoretical awareness of behavioural psychology. On this weeks' editor's podcast, Vicky Reynal, an author and financial psychotherapist, talks about her work with individual clients and why she teamed up with financial intel...

US equities have been in the wars so far in 2025, but it has not made it a cheap stock market, according to the guests on the latest edition of the FT Adviser podcast.

Talib Sheikh, multi-asset investors at Fidelity, Hugh Gimber, market strategist at JPMorgan, and James Thomson, who runs the Rathbones Global Opportunities fund, discussed the outlook for US equities at a time when share prices have fallen, but so have earnings ex...

There are a number of reasons why workplace culture can fail in advice businesses, but the causes are often rooted in leadership and the way people rise through the ranks.

On this episode of the FT Adviser Better Business podcast multimedia editor Carmen Reichman speaks to workplace culture expert Jenny Segal and behavioural economist Mark Pittaccio about the fundamentals of good workplace culture in advice firms.

In 2024, Britain’s faming communities marched to Westminster in protest against changes in the Autumn Budget to agricultural relief, which has been dubbed the 'family farm tax' or the 'tractor tax'.

In a bid to bring more tax into the nation's coffers, chancellor Rachel Reeves’ cut to APR will mean that from April 2026, a tax of 20 per cent will apply to agricultural assets over £1mn. Campaigners say this risks ringing the deat...

In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast we examine the outlook for UK equities, an unloved asset class in recent times, but one where the tide of sentiment may be about to turn as investors become concerned about the prospects for the US economy and markets.

Joining the discussion, chaired by FT Adviser's David Thorpe, were Richard Penny, UK equity fund manager at Oberon, Ian Rees, head of the multi-manager team at Premier Mit...

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When whistleblowers feel confident about reporting what they have seen and heard and know to be immoral or illegal, far-reaching changes can be made. 

With major changes to UK fraud laws taking effect this year, the government has made it clear that enforcement is ramping up.

Joining FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou on this episode of the Editor's Podcast is Peter Tutton, a financial investigator and forensic accountant....

Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, this week’s podcast guests discuss how advisers need to adapt their advice and processes to accommodate women's needs.

Amy Austin, news editor at FT Adviser, speaks to Samantha Secomb, chartered financial planner at Women’s Wealth, Sarah Lyons, chief customer officer at Parmenion, and Laura Ripley, chartered financial planner at BRI Wealth Management, about how the industry can bett...