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Platforms have made headlines over the past few years as the need for upgrades and differentiation as well as botched replatformings and consolidation in the market have kept platform issues in the spotlight. The latest FTAdviser Podcast examines how the platform space will evolve and whether the future of platforms is customisation. 

Guests Mark Polson, principal at consultancy The Lang Cat, and Sam Handfield-Jones, co-head of Seccl Technology for Octopus Investments discuss the possibilities.

The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com.

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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In this week's podcast we will be discussing with our guests: Pete Glancy, head of policy, Scottish Widows and Mike Lacey, partner, Bowmans Pension Consulting about the pensions advice allowance, which allows defined contribution pension scheme members to withdraw £500 a year tax-free from their pot, up to three times in their life, to pay for advice. We will also look at what providers should do to promote this feature and why savers are still wary of financial 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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The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Ilan Chaitowitz, co-manager of the Nomura Global High Conviction fund, and Minesh Patel, a chartered financial planner at EA Financial Solutions, discuss why the growth style of investing has done so well recently, whether value is set for a comeback and what advisers should do about it.

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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The recent strong correlation between the performance of equities and government bonds is driving investors into alternative assets, according to the guests on this week’s FTAdviser Podcast. Minesh Patel, financial adviser and director of EA Financial Solutions, and Ian Rees, multi-asset fund manager at Premier, have both become more interested in alternative investments in a world where bond yields are low and equity valuations look high. We discuss the different drivers that impact the market in alternative assets, the different way of accessing those assets, and where the opportunities lie. 

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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The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Ed Smith, head of asset allocation research at Rathbones, and Alan Chan, a chartered financial planner at IFS Wealth and Pensions, discuss environmental, social and governance investing. They discuss whether ESG investing means having to accept lower returns, if it will ever become a default way of investing and what it actually means.

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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Robo-advisers have come and gone in recent years, creating debate in the industry over their profitability, whether they can be properly regulated and the standard of advice they produce. The latest FTAdviser Podcast examines how technology will improve the market for advice and whether true robo-advice will ever come to fruition.

Guests Ben Taylor, chief technical officer at AI platform Rainbird, and Paul McNamara, chief executive of fintech group EValue, discuss the possibilities.

The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com.

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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The policies pursued since the financial crisis of record low interest rates and quantitative easing have usurped many of the traditional rules of asset allocation. The latest FTAdviser podcast examines how a multi-asset investor can navigate the new world of asset allocation.

Guests David Jane, who runs a range of multi-asset portfolios at Miton, and Gary Waite from Walker Crips discuss the options for 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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The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Edwin Schooling Latter, director of markets and wholesale policy at the Financial Conduct Authority, discussed the regulator’s proposal to introduce a contingent charging ban for defined benefit transfers, and other changes that will affect financial advisers work in this area.

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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The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Seneca Investment's chief investment officer Peter Elston and FTAdviser's investment reporter, David Thorpe discuss what the inverted yield curve means and whether 'this time it is different'.

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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The FTAdviser Podcast is the weekly podcast for financial advisers brought to you by FTAdviser.com. In this week's episode Paul McGlone, president of the Society of Pension Professionals, and Andrew Boyt, pension transfers specialist and freelance consultant, discuss how guaranteed minimum pensions is affecting financial advisers work.

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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