FTAdviser Podcast

With the UK general election mere weeks away, FT Adviser's senior reporter Alina Khan speaks to Simon Harrington, head of public affairs at Pimfa, Ollie Saiman, co-founder of advice firm Six Degrees, and Tom Selby, head of public policy at AJ Bell, about the main parties' manifestos and what the implications of certain policies could be for advisers and their clients. 

Podcasts have become a great way to communicate with clients, peers and colleagues, but when it comes to delivering great content, you really need to have a plan in place. In this editor's podcast from FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou, production specialist and seasoned broadcaster Tariq Aziz provides top tips for getting started and upping your podcast game. This podcast qualifies for CPD.

Equity market returns are starting to broaden out beyond the large US technology companies, but how can managers take full advantage? FT Adviser's investment editor David Thorpe speaks to Fahad Hassan, chief investment officer at Albemarle Street Partners, Matthew Yeates, deputy chief investment officer at 7IM, and Katerina Kosmopoulou, partner and fund manager at J Stern and Co, about their diversification strategies for equities in the current market. The FT Adviser Podcast is the podcast for financial advisers, brought to you by FT Adviser. Each week, we are joined by guests from the industry to discuss the week in news and pressing industry issues.

We have all been urged to back British businesses by various chancellors recently, but this goes much further than simply shopping locally. We need to look at our investment strategies, too. In this podcast, FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou speaks with Modwenna Rees-Mogg, founder of the Angel News business. Rees-Mogg is a doyenne of angel investing and a specialist commentator on the early stage entrepreneurial market in the UK. She discusses "exciting business activity" happening across every county in the UK and urges people to look at the growth of investible companies that are home-grown.

It can be a challenge to get sports people to think long term about their financial futures. But doing so is important for a number of reasons.FT Adviser senior reporter Alina Khan speaks to Mark Tueart, managing director at LIFT-Sport, and Conrad Balatoni, associate partner practice at St James’s Place, about why football players are targets for financial misconduct and scams and the role advisers play in helping them make good financial decisions.The FT Adviser Podcast is the podcast for financial advisers, brought to you by FT Adviser. Each week, we are joined by guests from the industry to discuss the week in news and pressing industry issues.

In 2020, the former BoE governor Mark Carney said the bank's objective was that "every professional financial decision will need to take climate change into account". Since then we have seen regulatory action on removing greenwashing from the investment process, a consumer duty obligation to have more open conversations with clients about their investment choices and a global push politically and economically to tackle climate change. But what about more immediate, tangible effects that can be seen in investing directly to tackle environmental degradation? How can the natural economy align to individual financial plans as well as to the wider economy?Here to discuss these things with FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou is Will McDonald, an independent consultant and a sustainability and public policy expert.

The latest edition of the FT Adviser podcast discusses the topic of investing in a world of lower interest rates. The guests, James Klempster, deputy head of multi-asset at Liontrust, Tim Foster, bond fund manager at Fidelity, and Dean Cook, multi-asset investor at Aviva Investors, discuss the impact on equity and bond markets of rates falling and what it all may mean for diversification. 

In this Editor's Podcast, FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou talks to Scottish National Party politician Martin Docherty-Hughes about the issue of mortgage prisoners in the UK. Martin has been the Member of Parliament for West Dunbartonshire since 2015, and has been campaigning for fairness across all aspects of British life. In recent years he has been working to help tens of thousands of mortgage prisoners in the UK and has recently urged parliament to alleviate their plight.

Could, or should, AI be used to take part in long conversations with clients? In this editor's podcast, Simoney Kyriakou talks to GENE, a very intelligent chatbot created by the Boston Consulting Group, and fellow guest Paul Michelman, editor-in-chief at the Boston Consulting Group. The guests discuss the usefulness of embedding AI in client conversations and the advice process, and how technology can be used and adapted to improve back-end administration and personalisation.