FTAdviser Podcast

After 16 years at the helm of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries, Rob Sinclair is set to step down. The man who - by his own admission - is partly responsible for the introduction of the retail distribution review has been a familiar figure for advisers for many years. He talks to FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou about advocating for mortgage advisers post-credit crunch, why it is important to create a working climate where you can "debate things" and argue in a powerful and constructive way, and to have a clear, sharp focus on what the outcomes should be.

Money worries go hand-in-hand with housing vulnerability. And with housing vulnerability often comes difficulty in obtaining meaningful employment - thus perpetuating the vicious cycle. In this podcast, FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou talks about the ongoing problems faced by over a million UK households with Maxine Pritchard MBE. Pritchard led the No Fixed Address campaign at HSBC UK, which will be having its five-year anniversary in November this year. Also on this podcast, FT Adviser intern Fardeen Anan provides a short report outlining the issues facing homeless Britons.

Service levels among UK insurance companies have dropped significantly over the past few years. In this latest FT Adviser editor's podcast, which is worth 30 minutes of CPD, Roy McLoughlin, director of strategic partners at Cavendish Ware and member of the Protection Distributors Group, talks to Simoney Kyriakou, editor of FT Adviser, about what needs to change in the sector.

The rise in the size of private markets, the opportunities and the potential for systemic issues to arise from that size has prompted closer attentionIn this latest podcast, FTAdviser deputy features editor Ima Jackson-Obot is joined by Leon Sinclair, an executive vice president at financial data company Preqin to talk about regulation and technology in private markets.The FTAdviser podcast is the podcast for financial advisers, brought to you by FTAdviser. Each week, FTAdviser is joined by guests from the industry to discuss the week in news and pressing industry issues.

Research by consultancy McKinsey has found that, in the case of ethnic and cultural diversity, there is a strong business case for companies whose senior management was more culturally and ethnically diverse. It found that, in 2019, top-quartile companies outperformed those in the fourth one by 36 per cent in profitability, slightly up from 33 per cent in 2017 and 35 per cent in 2014. So how can improved representation boost UK financial services performance and improve outcomes for Britain’s consumers? On this podcast, Atlyn Forde, founder and chief executive of Communicate Inclusively, talks to FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou about her mission to empower organisations to achieve transformative DE&I success through Forde's change-maker programme.

Offering automated advice alongside a firm's normal proposition can be a good way to attract younger investors, but there are a few things advisers should consider before building and running such a service.We speak to James Anderson, IFA at Westminster Wealth and CEO of digital advice service AllAdvised and Peter Ridlington, CEO & founder of Ningi, about what it takes for SMEs to offer digital advice.

On the latest edition of the FT Adviser podcast, Iain Stealey, international chief investment officer for fixed income at JP Morgan Asset Management, David Coombs, head of multi-asset funds at Rathbones Investment Management and Tom Hibbert, multi-asset strategist at Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management discuss the outlook and opportunities in bond markets at a time of higher yields, but also elevated volatility, and an uncertain monetary policy environment.

Amy Austin, News Editor at FTAdviser, discusses how the industry has found consumer duty a year after it was introduced with Mark Pittaccio, business consultant and behavioural economist at Quilter Financial Planning, Dan Scholey, COO of Moneyhub and Victor Sacks, IFA at VS Associates.They look at how consumer duty was an opportunity for advisers to explore what they were offering to clients and look at what they could improve.They also discuss how consumer duty may change over the next few years with the emergence of technology.

FT Adviser's Chloe Cheung speaks to Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association, and Ross Dalzell, managing director of property at Aldermore about Labour's housing plans, what lenders think of these policies, and why IMLA has urged the government to review regulatory barriers to first-time home ownership.