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With advisers having direct relationships with their clients, IFAs are seen as playing a key role in checking how fund managers are influencing companies to meet their net-zero targets. And as the demand for ESG strategies grow, the approach companies are employing to reach net zero has become even more important.

On this latest podcast, FTAdviser deputy features editor Ima Jackson-Obot is joined by Carol Storey, climate engagement lead at Schroders and Ita McMahon, partner in the investment management team at Castlefield.

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.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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This week FTAdviser reporter Jane Matthews is joined by Will Rice, chief executive of specialist mortgage lender Gen H and Lewis Shaw, owner of Riverside Mortgages, who explain what innovation is currently taking place in the first-time buyer market and outline their views on where they think the market is heading.

Both guests acknowledge that one of the main issues for first-time buyers trying to buy a home these days is that while often they have the income to afford it, they do not have the capital for a deposit. 

Shaw gives an overview of some of the innovations that are currently available in the market and shared his view on what ones offer the best route to homeownership.

Rice, whose company launched in 2020 and specialises in lending to first-time buyers struggling with affordability issues, also outlines his view of the market and shared his own experience of recently becoming a homeowner. 

The FTAdviser Podcast is the podcast for financial advisers, brought to you by FTAdviser. Each week, FTAdviser is joined by guests fro the industry to discuss the week in news and pressing industry issues.

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.

Nick Hutton, head of Blackrock's UK client business for retail iShares and wealth, joins Sally Hickey, chief reporter at FTAdviser, to speak about consolidation of wealth managers, passive investing and UK equities.

Hutton covers the role passive funds should be playing in a portfolio, whether exchange-traded funds are less popular among UK clients and why, and the fiduciary duty asset managers have for their clients.

He also speaks about the outlook for UK equities.

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.

People’s retirement journeys are changing amid high inflation, higher interest rates, and a chancellor keen on getting more people back into work. In this episode of the FTAdviser In Focus podcast we chat to Paul Clifton from Arbuthnot Latham, and Alexander McGregor from SimplyBiz, about why annuities may make a comeback.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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Once a quarter, FTAdviser journalists talk about some of the most interesting stories they have worked on and what the implications of such breaking news might be for the readers. In this episode, we discuss the Budget, the backtracking over the state pension age rise, inflation, central bank policies and the incoming consumer duty regulations. Joining editor Simoney Kyriakou on this podcast are Amy Austin, news editor, and David Thorpe, investment editor and contributing editor for Asset Allocator.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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Retirement income is a complex area to advise on, as clients have different ideas of what they want from their retirement. In this CPD podcast, in partnership with 7IM, we discuss how advisers can navigate the important area of retirement planning, what solutions are out there for them to streamline their business, and the role providers are playing to help advisers be the most efficient they can be.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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Amy Austin, news editor at FTAdviser speaks to Keith Richards, CEO of the Consumer Duty Alliance, Ian McKenna, chair of the CDA Tech Forum and Russell Facer, early Affiliate of the Alliance about how the new body will help advisers.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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Earlier this month chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled his Spring Budget, containing a number of tax measures particularly in the pension space. In this episode of the FTAdviser In Focus podcast Nimesh Shah, CEO of Blick Rothenberg and Richard Stanley, partner at UHY Hacker Young, discuss what the statement will mean for advisers' tax planning.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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This edition of the FTAdviser podcast examines the outlook and opportunities for investors in fixed income markets.

Joining FTAdviser investment editor David Thorpe are Torcail Stewart, Strategic Bond fund manager at Baillie Gifford; Nathan Sweeney, deputy chief investment officer for multi-asset at Marlborough, and Tom Beckett, from the chief investment officer’s office at Canaccord Genuity.

The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering investments, pensions, regulation and other key issues.

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It is becoming increasingly easier for retail investors to access private assets as a result of evolving technology and regulation. So what do advisers need to understand about private assets investing? On this latest podcast, FTAdviser deputy features editor Ima Jackson-Obot is joined by Simon Doherty, head of MPS at Quilter Cheviot and Tim Boole, head of product management at Schroders to talk about the role private assets play in a portfolio and the type of investor they are suitable for.

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.

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.