FTAdviser Podcast

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 topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

August 1, 2025 32 mins

The guests on the latest edition of the FT Adviser podcast retain most of their focus on the large cap part of the US market, but are cautious on the outlook for the seven stocks at the top of the index.

Alex Crooke, who runs the Bankers investment trust at Janus Henderson, Jason Da Silva, multi-asset investment strategist at Arbuthnot Latham, and Dan White, who runs the M&G North America Value fund, discuss how they are finding...

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On this episode of the FT Adviser podcast senior reporter Tom Dunstan chats to AMI head of policy Stacy Penn and St James’s Place divisional director of third party products & services, Tony Mudd, about the FCA's mortgage review, what they would like to see, what they predict will happen, and what they don't want to come out of the review.

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In this episode FT Adviser's news editor Amy Austin discusses what has changed about adviser apprenticeships and why the industry needs to be more proactive in promoting them with Tom Hegarty, chair of the New Talent Alliance, and Rachael Fennessey, founder of recruitment agency Aspire Executive Search.

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What happens when the benefits of AI meet questions of accountability and agency? Joining Margin Notes in this episode is Sarah de Lagarde, brighter future strategist for Janus Henderson, who has described herself as a “bionic woman”, and is using her voice to encourage companies to think more creatively about ways to innovate and design products and services that make things easier for everyone. 




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Not all advice business sales are equal and many require meticulous planning to achieve the desired result but when the right decisions are made, the outcome can be very satisfying. In this episode of the FT Adviser Better Business podcast Broadway Financial Planning's Keri Carter shares her M&A journey and what she has learned along the way

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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.




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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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From zoological research to heading up financial planning business Hannay Wealth, Vanessa Barnes’ career path into professional financial services is not a traditional one. She talks to editor Simoney Kyriakou on the FT Adviser Editor's Podcast about her new role as chairperson of the Women’s Wealth Alliance and why the Alliance has just launched a wide-ranging survey of the profession.

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"There is so much that can be done constructively through the law," according to Dr Jocelynne Scutt. The Australian-born barrister, writer and human rights lawyer speaks to the FT Adviser Editor's Podcast about her formative years learning about women's rights and how her legal work led her to help Britain's 50s-born women in their struggle for pensions fairness.

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June 6, 2025 24 mins

On this episode of the FT Adviser editor's podcast Simoney Kyriakou speaks with corporate activist Belinda Parmar OBE about empathy in advice and why too many advisers mistake sympathy for empathy.

The episode qualifies for 30 minutes of CPD.


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May 30, 2025 17 mins
In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast senior reporter Tom Dunstan speaks with St James’s Place head of economic research, Hetal Mehta, and Ash Ridge independent mortgage and equity release adviser, Jane King, about the latest developments in the mortgage market and their expectations on future interest rates.

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FT Adviser's multimedia editor Carmen Reichman speaks to David Jane, fund manager at Premier Miton, and Will McIntosh-Whyte, fund manager at Rathbones, about what Trump’s economic policies mean for equities and bonds, how they have adapted their investment strategies and why emerging markets might be the unexpected winners from the turmoil.

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May 16, 2025 21 mins

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,...

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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...

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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...

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April 24, 2025 30 mins

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.


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Carmen Reichman, multi-media editor at FT Adviser, is joined by Claire Trott, divisional director of retirement and holistic planning at St James’s Place, and Shaun Moore, tax and financial planning expert at Quilter, to discuss the changes the chancellor might make in the next Budget, the changes advisers would like to see, and how advisers can prepare their clients for the next fiscal event in these turbulent times.

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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...

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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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FT Adviser's Alina Khan is joined by Rachel Vahey, head of public policy at AJ Bell, Charlie Barnes, head of employment legal services at RSM UK, and Stephanie Court, private client tax director at RSM UK, who discussed the recent Spring Statement, the lack of tax announcements this time round and the anticipated potential tax rises in the autumn Budget.

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