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Why is the UK financial advisory profession at a crossroads?

IThe UK financial advisory profession is at a crossroads, according to a White Paper from Triple Point. Shared exclusively with FT Adviser, the paper discusses how advise

What can help improve people's pensions in the UK?

With an ageing population and higher than ever levels of working age people not in employment, the welfare and pension bills are putting enormous pressure on the nation’s

Are your investments linked to serious human rights violations?

Many investors assume ESG-labelled funds automatically exclude companies connected to genocide, apartheid, war crimes or crimes against humanity. However, a 2025 OECD rev

What matters most when selecting pension providers?

Advisers are increasingly looking beyond headline charges when selecting pension providers. In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast deputy news editor Sonia Rach chats

Why getting data right matters as much to journalists as to you

In this episode of Margin Notes, FT Adviser speaks with Anesu Ngwenya, who was doing work experience with the FT Group over the summer. Having graduated with a specialism

The double risk facing young people in Britain

This episode of Margin Notes looks at the risk affecting young people in Britain today - a double risk, if you like - of rising youth unemployment and low financial resil

How authoritarian regimes are exploiting the UN SDGs

Authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights and dire environmental practices have been abusing the UN sustainable development goals to secure foreign direct investm

What happens to your business when the money runs out?

Being an entrepreneur is always a risky business but for millions of self-employed people in Britain, owning their own business is not just a revenue stream but a life go

How to stop people walking away from advice

“At the very point where people need advice, they walk away from it”. This was a stark point made by Gillian Hepburn, head of UK adviser solutions and sales for Vanguard,

How to improve the legacy you build within your firm

Companies that fail to get the culture right will fail to hire the right candidates to help the business grow and succeed, according to Jenny Segal, founder of Speaking w

How mentors and role models will inspire the next generation

“She just blew me away and that was day one.” Gabrielle Beaumont still remembers the impact of seeing a “formidable lady” in a senior role as she discusses the importance

How well has the financial advice profession marketed itself?

Marketing properly to two-thirds of the UK’s wealth owners is not a nice-to-have: it’s a commercial necessity. This is the view of Claire Blackwell, co-founder of The Ne

A maths thing, a money thing or a people thing?

Charlotte Wheeler, senior wealth manager at JPMorgan PI, and a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute’s New Generation Programme, told Tea with the FTA about her pat

Here's how financial services can address the advice gap and help women join the profession

"Any actions need to be data-led” when it comes to tackling the advice gap and helping more women to join the financial services profession. This was one of the key prin

‘Manual pension transfers are slow, costly and prone to error’

Pathfinder is a master-trust-led steering group set up to explore ways to improve pension transfers for savers and support a more scalable transfer process across the wor

Risk-reward balance: investors now battling with multiple uncertainties

FT Adviser’s Simoney Kyriakou speaks to Violeta Todorova, senior research analyst at Leverage Shares, about the risk-reward balance. Tune in to hear more about the impo

What will Burnham's government mean for taxes?

In this episode of the FT Adviser podcast Antonia Medlicott, founder of Investing Insiders and The Times columnist, and Harry Woolman, global capital markets associate at

New property opportunities enable investors to target growth as well as income

When allocating to property funds, investors have typically focused on the income potential, but the evolution of the asset class means growth potential increasingly exis

Advice gap is widening because there’s too much for IFAs to do

Nearly 40 years since Big Bang, almost 2 decades since the Retail Distribution Review and 10 years since the Brexit vote, and we have a problem: the advice gap is only ge

Can we define quality stocks in an era of change?

How investors think about a quality company in an era of rapid technological and geopolitical change varies. But can we define quality? This was among the topics discusse