Financial Services Unplugged with Tom McPhail

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The lang cat‘s Tom McPhail talks with industry experts and insiders about pensions and investments, regulation, technology, politics and policy-making . Grown-up financial services insights for people who work here. Tom is one of the industry‘s leading experts on pensions and retirement for over 20 years and former Head of Policy for the FTSE100 firm Hargreaves Lansdown. You can also find him on Twitter as @pensionsmonkey

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Collective Defined Contribution schemes are going to save pensions

Mar 14 2024 47 mins

Adrian Boulding makes a compelling case, not just why CDC schemes are a good idea but also, crucially how they are actually going to happen

Having fun on Budget Day

Mar 07 2024 32 mins

Tom Selby and I unpick the political, fiscal and personal finance fun and games of the Budget

Bridging the financial guidance gap

Mar 01 2024 44 mins

In which Robert and Charlie from Money Guided talk about how to help people manage their money better

A long-term savings commission

Feb 26 2024 33 mins

Andrew Tully from Nucleus on why we need a long-term savings commission

How do we fix pension transfers?

Jan 19 2024 19 mins

...in Which Dave Henderson of Penny https://pennypension.com and I offer a couple of suggestions for how to make pension transfers work better

The Gregg McClymont episode

Jan 14 2024 32 mins

...in which Gregg talks to me about pension investments in infrastructure and politics from the viewpoint of an ex-shadow pensions minister.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Advice Guidance Boundary Review...

Dec 19 2023 57 mins

The FCA's proposed solutions and consultation questions analysed with expert help from Nathan Long of Hargreaves Lansdown and Michael Lawrence of Bovill. You can also read Michael's thoughts here Advice Guidance Boundary Review puts transformative change on horizon - Bovill

The expert view on pension dashboards

Dec 12 2023 50 mins

Richard Smith gives the expert's view on where we're at with the development of pension dashboards, drawing on years of experience in the UK and fresh insights from across Europe.

How confident are we about retirement?

Nov 28 2023 21 mins

Andy Tully joins me to talk through the Nucleus research on retirement confidence; who's confident, who isn't and the factors that affect confidence. Clue: it's really important to have a plan...

The Autumn Statement

Nov 24 2023 31 mins

Another big week for pensions policy, James Dowling helps me pick out the highlights.