The stories that have kept us busy in 2025

In this final episode of the FT Adviser Margin Notes podcast of 2025, FT Adviser's editor Simoney Kyriakou chats with news editor Amy Austin and deputy features editor Ima Jackson-Obot about the stories that made the headlines and those that deserved deeper digging over the course of the year.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.

In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast, senior features reporter Chloe Cheung chats to Mark Spiers, managing partner at Ocorian, and Donald Reid, co-founder of Solve Partners, about the Financial Conduct Authority’s findings in its latest consolidation review, where culture was high up on the agenda.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.

There is a widespread belief that there will no longer be a state pension in the future, which has emerged among young people. This is one of the beliefs that Young Money blog founder Iona Bain has noticed developing among generation Z and millennials, as she tells FT Adviser editor Simoney Kyriakou. 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.

In this special Budget edition of the FT Adviser podcast news editor Amy Austin chats to Claire Trott, head of advice at SJP, Andrew Tully, technical services director at Nucleus, Eamonn Prendergast, chartered financial planner at Planatir Financial Planning, and Ian Cook, chartered financial planner at Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning, about the likely impact the Chancellor's second Budget will have on the advice industry.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.

Dementia is one of the world's biggest killers, and perhaps one of the biggest thieves, stealing people's loved ones even before they pass away. But progress has been made in diagnosis, treatments and tests, thanks in large part to the work of Alzheimer's Society. On this year's Day for Dementia, part of the Insurance United Against Dementia Campaign (November 27), Dr Richard Oakley of Alzheimer's Society talks to editor Simoney Kyriakou of the Society's vision. This vision is for a world where dementia no longer devastates lives, aiming for Alzheimer’s disease to become a chronic condition, like diabetes or HIV, by 2050, allowing people to live a good quality of life and die with but not from the disease.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.

FT Adviser's Amy Austin speaks to Helena Wardle, founder and chief executive at Money Means, Joseph Twigg, chief executive of Aveni and Dickon Johnstone chief executive of Themis about how AI is being deployed and what this means for AI compliance.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.

High taxation, stagnant wages and house price inflation are all challenges facing Gen Z, which is why financial education around investing and how wealth is passed down is important.FT Adviser senior editor Simoney Kyriakou speaks to Malvee Vaja, a chartered financial planner working within the Rathbones Advice team, and intern Hereward Mills bout how this is changing advice processes and why more education is needed in schools.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.

One of the most eye-catching policy proposals made by the Labour party in the run-up to the election was their pledge to build 1.5mn houses by the end of the current parliament to address the housing shortage in the country.In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast Aldermore managing director of property, Ross Dalzell, and Landmark Information Group divisional director of growth, Michael Holden, discuss the ambitious plans and their likely effects on the market.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.

On this week’s episode of the FT Adviser podcast, senior reporter Alina Khan speaks to Alan Lakey, director of Highclere Financial Services, and Derek Bradley, chief executive of Panacea Adviser, about complaints cases they have come across over the years and why they underpin a real need for a Fos longstop.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.

On the latest edition of the FT Adviser podcast, senior investment editor David Thorpe chats to F&C investment trust manager Paul Niven, Arbuthnot Latham head of investment research Peter Doherty and Ashoka White Oak emerging markets investment adviser Loong Lim about the prospects for the emerging markets asset class after a strong year of performance in 2025.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.