The Money Marketing Podcast

Month in Review - January 2022

As January has drawn to a close, the editorial team at Money Marketing discuss their stand-out stories as well as what readers have to look forward to in February 2022.

The importance of an advised protection plan - Protection & Wellbeing Series

In the second episode of our wellbeing series, Katey Pigden, editor at Money Marketing talks to Christina Rigby, Product Owner at Royal London, and Sally Powell, General Manager, PAI Health to discuss the importance of providing support for people to look after a key area of wellbeing – physical activity and heart health - within an advised protection plan.
Royal London’s Helping Hand support service includes access for the plan owner to a range of online wellbeing services – among them PAI health. We discuss why access to early care medical services, such as PAI, can help people to understand key areas of their health. And we look at how personalised recommendations and small changes to lifestyle can help improve a person’s overall health and reduce the risks of non-communicable disease, such as heart attacks, strokes and cancer.

The ups and downs of being a foreign adviser in the UK

In his latest Weekend Essay, reporter Jean-Baptiste Andrieux details the ups and downs of being a foreign adviser in the UK.

Protecting customers’ health to build their financial resilience - Protection & Wellbeing Series

In the first episode of the Protection & Wellbeing Podcast, brought to you by Royal London, editor at Money Marketing, Katey Pigden is joined by Christina Rigby, product owner at Royal London, and Alex Heaton, founder and ceo at LiveSmart UK. 
In this episode, they discuss:
the importance of providing access to early care, preventative, medical services in a protection plan.
Why offering tangible benefits to customers - that are linked to maintaining or improving their health and wellbeing – is a responsible step for providers to take, to help protect customers’ health and build their financial resilience.
Royal London's efforts in enhancing its Helping Hand service, which is available with all advised protection plans, to include a range of online wellbeing services to help plan owners understand how small changes in their lifestyle can help to improve their overall health, and to help stop health small issues now becoming bigger problems later on.
Listen out for the next episode of Protection & Wellbeing Podcast which is a series in association with Royal London, coming out every Monday.

Fitting in – the other side of social mobility

In this week's Weekend Essay podcast, Amanda Newman Smith, feature writer, shares a personal and beautiful account of the intricacies of fitting in when considering social mobility.

Why we need more Frank Fields

In this week's Weekend Essay podcast, news editor, Michael Klimes tells us why we need more people like Labour MP Frank Field.

Do we expect more for less from advisers?

In her first weekend essay of the year, feature writer, Amanda Newman Smith asks Do we expect more for less from advisers?

Advisers’ Christmas wish list: What advisers want in 2022

In our final weekend essay of the year reporter, Jean-Baptiste Andrieux looks forward and asks What do advisers want in 2022?

End of Year Wrap Up 2021

The Money Marketing editorial team come together to discuss some notable moments from 2021 and what they anticipate will come in 2022. 

Should the advice sector work harder to tackle poor advice?

Reporter Momodou Musa Touray asks whether the advice sector needs to do more to tackle poor advice.