Panorama explored the failure of Blackmore Bond in ‘The Billion Pound Savings Scandal’ last week. It featured NMA’s Deputy Editor Jack Gilbert. We speak to Jack about the making of the film.
The likes of Facebook, Google and TikTok are cracking down on fraudulent financial services advertising, but are they doing enough to stop scams? In this episode of The Advice Show, ‘finfluencer’ Alex Stedman shares how pertinent fraudulent financial promotions are on social media and evaluates the measures in place to…
Microservices is a type of software architecture used in building investment platforms. Instead of having a big lump of software, you have smaller components that can be swiftly updated. With two microservices experts, we discuss what benefits this new development could bring to advisers.
In our final episode, we reflect on the long term effects the scandal could have on steelworkers, why firms will fail and the timescale the FCA is expecting steel workers to be redressed by.
In episode two of Citywire New Model Adviser's special podcast series about the British Steel Pension Scheme scandal, senior reporter James Fitzgerald speaks with an affected steelworker and the FCA about the sort of unsuitable advice that was given by some IFAs who rushed down to advise steelworkers before and…
For the next four weeks, The Advice Show will be off air. Instead, Citywire New Model Adviser’s chief reporter James Fitzgerald has produced a special podcast series called The Phoenix Files, which includes testimony from steelworkers, pensions experts, the FCA and IFAs on how the British Steel Pension Scheme unfolded and…
Are we jumping back 50 years, with inflation and political upheaval taking centre stage again? Attendees at the Citywire Midlands Retreat weigh in on what makes this current situation different.
This week, 70 UK companies began a six month trial of a four-day working week. But a shorter working week is nothing new for Beaufort Financial Planning. In this episode of The Advice Show, director Gwilym Lloyd Jones discusses why a four-day week has been a success at his firm.
In this episode, Progeny's head of research, Robert Harrison, said China is looking 'more interesting' as a region to invest in, despite the continued lockdowns and ongoing economic uncertainties. And Harrison and Jamie Ward, head of investment solutions at AJ Bell, discuss why the UK has become an increasingly attractive…
Advice firms should not divest their climate-unfriendly assets and could do more to direct clients’ investments in to sustainable funds, according to a senior policy fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. At Citywire's inaugural Impact Retreat, Danae Kyriakopoulou spoke to reporter Nicola about the…
How do you analyse a universe of 8,000 stocks being picked by the world's best performing fund managers? That is a question Dan Grote and Algy Hall have been answering with their new Fix the Future project for Citywire. Here they explain to us the thinking behind their analysis and…
In this episode of the Advice Show for Mental Health Awareness week, mental wellbeing advocates Kate Erman and Anastasia Vinnikova share with reporter Chloé Meley some practical tips to help advice firms support their employees’ mental health.
ESG or impact fund managers often hold healthcare stocks because they align with the United Nations’ third Sustainable Development Goal: to ‘ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’. However, many larger healthcare companies have controversies to their name, ranging from charges of bribery to poor care…
In this episode of the Advice Show, reporter Chloé Meley speaks to two decentralised finance experts, Caroline Hughes and Lavinia Osbourne, about where DeFi opportunities lie for the UK in general and for the financial services sector in particular.
In this episode of The Advice Show, Kevin Doran, managing director of AJ Bell Investments, discusses 'Dodl', AJ Bell's consumer investment app aimed at first-time investors.
In this episode of the Advice Show, Citywire New Model Adviser reporter Chloe Meley speaks to founder of Contact State Alain Desmier and director of Vision Business Advisers Peter Trotman about why lead generation in the advice industry should be better regulated, and why due diligence on the part of…
Desiree Fixler was formerly the group sustainability officer at German asset manager DWS. But after accusing DWS of publishing misleading information about its ESG integration and assets, she was fired. In this interview, Fixler shares her story, unpicks common issues within the ESG investment universe, and calls for a reform…
In this week's edition of The Advice Show, NMA's James Fitzgerald speaks with PIMFA's Tim Fassam about how the FCA's British Streel redress scheme could affect the pensions transfer market.
8 Apr 2022
19 min
100 – 120
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