FTAdviser Podcast

Pathfinder is a master-trust-led steering group set up to explore ways to improve pension transfers for savers and support a more scalable transfer process across the workplace pensions market.Speaking with two members of Pathfinder, Sue Whittington, chief operating officer at Smart Pension, and Angela Staral, chief operating officer at People’s Pension, FT Adviser's Sonia Rach dives into the current issues facing pension transfers and how the Pathfinder initiative hopes to modernise the process.FT Adviser is currently running its Tidy Up Transfers campaign in a push to clean up pension transfer processes.

In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast Antonia Medlicott, founder of Investing Insiders and The Times columnist, and Harry Woolman, global capital markets associate at Validus, join reporter Hereward Mills to discuss tax speculation, fiscal headroom and the pressures facing new prime minister Andy Burnham.

When allocating to property funds, investors have typically focused on the income potential, but the evolution of the asset class means growth potential increasingly exists, according to the guests on the latest FT Adviser podcast.Marcus Phayre-Mudge, head of property investment at Columbia Threadneedle; Guy Foster, chief strategist at RBC Brewin Dolphin; and George Fox, who is part of the Merlin multi-manager team at Jupiter, speak with FT Adviser's senior investment editor David Thorpe on the role property can play in client portfolios.

Nearly 40 years since Big Bang, almost 2 decades since the Retail Distribution Review and 10 years since the Brexit vote, and we have a problem: the advice gap is only getting bigger. As Britons increasingly sit on valuable property wealth, grapple with inheritance tax and worry about funding their later lives, we all feel the need for professional advice has never been clearer. But what is the data telling us? In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast, Lorna Whalley, director – adviser platform, wealth from Aviva talks about the findings of their latest adviser research.

How investors think about a quality company in an era of rapid technological and geopolitical change varies. But can we define quality? This was among the topics discussed on this episode of the FT Adviser podcast.The guests, Columbia Threadneedle's Keith Balmer, Evelyn Partners' James Burns and Aviva Investors' Richard Saldanha, also discussed the challenge of building diversification within an equity allocation and whether there is value in UK equities right now.

On this episode of Margin Notes, author and financial journalist Jason Corcoran talks to editor Simoney Kyriakou about the risk of having invested in Russia - and the risk to Russia itself as a result of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. Corcoran, a former FT Adviser colleague, joined Financial News as head of asset management before being sent to Moscow as their correspondent in 2006, before working for Bloomberg and others in the Russian capital. That is, until the war in Ukraine forced him and his family to move to Ireland. His new book, Leaving Russia: howPutin forced a nation’s future to flee, is out now.

The FCA is looking to widen mortgage access for the self-employed, older borrowers, and those who may be paid in other currencies. But why now? We sat down with the FCA's director of retail banking Emad Aladhal, who shared the regulator's thinking behind the latest mortgage review.

A hype has built up around AI in advice businesses and with that comes the risk of buyer's remorse. FT Adviser reporter Hereward Mills chats to Damian Davies, head of engagement at The Timebank, and Peter McGahan, chief executive of Worldwide Financial Planning, about the risks around AI and how to ensure the technology fits your business.