Practical scrutiny for the advice profession.
FTAdviser Podcast is a measured industry programme for people who need financial services detail without losing the human consequences. Its interviews move from FCA consultations, AI risk, pensions, protection, and equities into what advice firms should actually change.
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FTAdviser Podcast follows the practical edge of UK financial advice. It is less interested in slogans than in what firms, advisers, and clients have to do next. The show works best as a structured industry conversation. An editor frames a problem, a specialist explains the moving parts, and the discussion narrows toward risk, process, cost, and defensible advice. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Cybersecurity is treated as a business hygiene problem, where unsecured admin accounts, phishing, and weak personal safeguards can expose client data. AI is treated with caution rather than panic. The concern is not only hallucination, but persuasive decisions made without empathy for the people who live with the outcome. Regulation gets similar treatment. The FCA discussion on simplified advice looks at targeted support, suitability reports, regulatory cost, and the advice gap for consumers with smaller pots or simpler needs. Retirement coverage stays close to client behaviour. The episode on women and retirement examines why women may enter advice conversations late, especially around bereavement, and why advisers need to keep checking who is actually engaged. Market episodes are more analytical. Conversations about US equities, UK asset prices, currency moves, Iran-related uncertainty, large-cap technology stocks, and sterling effects use current events as tests of portfolio thinking. Protection is handled as a client conversation, not just a product category. The show repeatedly asks whether people understand what support they have through work, the state, or existing policies. Its tone is serious but not bloodless. There are dry asides and light moments, yet the center of gravity remains professional. The interviews give experts room to develop a point, then translate it back into consequences for firms and advised clients. That makes the programme useful for regulated advisers, paraplanners, financial services leaders, and financially literate listeners who want more than headline commentary. It is a show about judgment under constraint. The recurring question is simple: when regulation, markets, technology, and human behaviour collide, what should an advice business do differently?
Made for: Designed for UK financial advisers, paraplanners, financial services leaders, and policy-aware listeners who follow regulation, markets, pensions, protection, and client outcomes. It also suits informed consumers who want a careful view of how advice decisions are made.
What sets it apart: The show connects high-level financial services change to the operational choices inside advice firms. It keeps technical discussions grounded in client vulnerability, suitability, cost, cyber resilience, and adviser behaviour.
FTAdviser is the Financial Times’ specialist title dedicated to the UK financial advice profession. Each week one of our reporters will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss issues such how the latest regulatory developments will impact advice firms, how advised clients will be affected by the latest developments in pensions, investing, mortgages and tax, and how the financial advice profession will develop and grow. The FTAdviser Podcast is designed to inform regulated UK advisers on a range of topics, covering <a href="https://www.ftadvi
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
FTAdviser Podcast connects financial policy and market shifts to the practical decisions facing advisers, their firms and their clients.
FTAdviser Podcast turns financial questions into decisions about clients, firms and professional responsibility. Simini Kiriakou and Amy Jackson-Obot lead focused conversations that move from the practical consequences of regulation to the choices advisers make around…
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A practical cyber-risk primer built around ordinary safeguards and one stark device-wiping example.
FT Advisor Margin Notes treats cyber risk as a risk-management problem rather than a specialist concern. Simini Kiriakou's conversation with Adam Irwin, managing partner of Strategic Insights Advisory for the Heligan Group, begins with the familiar pull of AI tools, then…
A grounded discussion on keeping human judgment central as technology reshapes financial services.
Digital transformation is framed here as a practical test for financial services: can firms improve the client experience without weakening the human judgment that still matters around major money decisions?
A practical adviser-focused look at women's retirement risk and financial engagement.
The gender retirement gap is given a practical, adviser-facing treatment, anchored by Scottish Widows' finding that more than a third of women are at risk of poverty in retirement.
A practical adviser-focused episode on protection gaps, client assumptions, and the questions that can bring them into view.
Protection gets a clear, focused outing here, with the episode looking at how advisers can explain cover, test assumptions about workplace or state support, and bring the subject into client conversations.
A measured discussion of government bonds, credit risk, liquidity and sticky inflation.
Fixed income has spent recent years dealing with repeated shifts in expectations around rate cuts, rate rises and monetary policy. FT Advisor brings together Ian Steeley, International Chief Investment Officer for Fixed Income at JP Morgan Asset Management, David Coombs, Head of…
A grounded take on how APR changes could reshape advice for farming families and food security.
The Family Farm Tax lands where estate planning, farm balance sheets and Britain's food supply all meet, and the FT Advisor Editor's Podcast keeps that collision practical.
Real-estate freedom, taught in plain numbers.
The FTAdviser podcast explores the outlook for fixed income in a volatile market with three experts: Ian Steeley from JP Morgan, David Coombs from Rathbones, and Tom Hibbert from Canaccord.
The FTAdviser Podcast examines the UK's new 'Family Farm Tax' – a 20% inheritance tax on agricultural assets over £1 million starting April 2026.
FT Advisor podcast discusses the FCA's decision to lift the ban on crypto exchange traded notes for retail investors, exploring implications for consumers and UK crypto regulation.
AI is part of the doorway, not the whole story.
FTAdviser Podcast's "Unlocking value in times of digital transformation" puts Simini Kiriakou, editor of FT Adviser, in conversation with Shankar Narayanan, Tata Consultancy Services' business head for banking, financial services and insurance across the UK, EMEA, and APAC.
FT Advisor Podcast examines why the gender retirement gap persists, using Scottish Widows' 21st Women and Retirement Report and its headline that women's median pension pot at retirement is £173,000 versus £286,000 for men.
FT Advisor interviews the FCA's Kate Blanchard-Hick about their new consultation on simplified financial advice and the upcoming targeted support regime.
A panel of investment experts discuss the outlook for US equities and large-cap tech stocks amid geopolitical tensions from the Iran conflict.
Greg Davis of Oxford Risk told FT Adviser editor Simini Kuriakou that the FCA's Mills Review, launched at the end of January, should be read alongside the Consumer Duty's outcomes focus.
FT Advisor podcast discusses the impact of the Iran crisis on UK asset prices, featuring expert analysis on UK equities and dollar weakness.
Simini Kuriakou and Roy McLaughlin use the FT Adviser Podcast to examine Business Protection Week, the FCA's pure protection review, and targeted support.
Industry experts discuss the FCA's mortgage market review, focusing on potential changes to loan-to-income limits and consumer protections.
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