FTAdviser Podcast

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.

The regulator's latest data on the retirement income market showed there continues to be a trend of less people taking advice when entering drawdown. There was also less people taking guidance when buying annuities or entering their pots in general.Joining FT Adviser news editor Amy Austin to delve into the data and discuss what it means are Tom Mcphail, director of public affairs at the Lang Cat and Mark Ormston, director of propositions and corporate partnerships at Retirement Line.

Much of the world's population will be going to the polls for elections in the coming years. But should advisers or their clients react to the politics, either by viewing it as a chance for profit or a threat requiring evasive action.Joining FT Adviser investment editor David Thorpe to discuss the topic are Sunil Krishnan, head of multi-asset funds at Aviva Investors; Hugh Gimber, market strategist at JP Morgan; and Hiroki Hashimoto, senior multi-asset fund manager at Royal London Asset Management.

It's been a decade since the world of pensions was turned on its head by the then government. People were given more freedom and choice to use their pension funds as they please. But what is the lasting impact of the reforms and why is the regulator now concerned about retirement advice?Amy Austin speaks to Andrew Tully, technical services director at Nucleus, and David Haynes, senior financial adviser at Nightingales Wealth Management, to find out.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 this episode of the Editor's Podcast, Simoney Kyriakou, editor of FT Adviser, talks about artificial intelligence - two words one can hardly escape hearing or reading, it seems. But the speed at which this so-called Fifth Industrial Revolution is taking place makes it impossible to ignore. She is joined by a tech enthusiast, Dr Christian Westermann to consider how financial services can use AI better. He worked on NASA and the ESA space missions in the 1990s, building satellite-based instruments, working on signal detection, and trying to understand the origin of our solar system with the use of physics, data & modelling. Westermann is now Group head of AI and data transformation at Zurich.

It is the current government's long-term ambition to abolish National Insurance, after two consecutive cuts in the past two fiscal events. But what would a world without NI look like, and what impact would it have on pensions? FT Adviser's Alina Khan is joined by Ian Cook, chartered financial planner at Quilter Cheviot, Tom Selby, director of public policy at AJ Bell and Susan Hope, IFA workplace senior manager at Scottish Widows, to discuss the scenario. 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.

On this episode of the Editor's Podcast, brought to you by FT Adviser, Simoney Kyriakou speaks to Anna Sofat, chairperson of workplace gender equality champion One Loud Voice, and Lizzie Holliday, director of policy and public affairs for NOW: Pension. We discuss why gender disparity prevails in pensions and in employment, and consider ways that today's financial advice community - as well as politicians and providers - can work together to help overcome persistent problems in women's finances.