MPAF77 Roy McLoughlin on Pensions Auto Enrolment Challenges, Opportunities and Collaborations

Published: Feb. 4, 2016, 9:48 a.m.

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MPAF77 \\u2013 Roy McLoughlin on Pensions Auto Enrolment Challenges, Opportunities and Collaborations

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Seen as the best way to overcome \\u201csavings inertia\\u201d, Auto Enrolment is the biggest shake up of pensions in a generation.

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It\\u2019s a huge opportunity for financial planners but also represents adminstration challenges.

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In this episode I talk to Roy Mcloughlin about maximising the opportunities, over coming the challenges and looking for ways to collaborate with other financial services professionals.

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That\'s all right here in Episode 77 of the\\xa0Marketing Protection and Finance Podcast.

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Who is Roy McLoughlin?

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Welcome folks to another episode of the MPAF Podcast. Wherever you are in the world, and whatever you\\u2019re doing whilst listening to this, running, walking, dog walking, cooking, cleaning or chilling, thanks so much for giving me and my guests some of your time. I really appreciate it.

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I was delighted by the feedback on last week\\u2019s episode where John Cordray talked about building a personal brand using live video. Even though the MPAF Podcast is mainly for Financial Services Professionals in the UK, last week\\u2019s was generic enough to attract new listeners from other industries and countries.

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I started the podcast to give you ideas and inspiration. Please let me know what topics you\\u2019d like to hear on the show and who you\\u2019d like to hear me chat to. Look me up at rogeredwards.co.uk and fill in the contact form, or tweet me @roger_edwards. You can even find me on SnapChat RogerAEdwards. Yes, I am on snapchat. And do you know. It isn\\u2019t just for the under 18s. I\\u2019ve made some great business contacts on Snapchat in the last few weeks and found started to forge some amazing supportive relationships.

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So let\\u2019s get into this week\\u2019s interview and I\\u2019m delighted to introduce you to Roy McLoughlin.

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Roy is an experienced financial planner with a wealth of knowledge from advising a broad portfolio of private and corporate clients within the PR, advertising, media and entertainment sectors.

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He\\u2019s a well known media commentator, a founder and executive member of the Income Protection Taskforce and a Non Executive Director of insurer British Friendly.

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Links and Show Notes.

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For links to the books and apps mentioned by Roy, please visit http://rogeredwards.co.uk/MPAF for the show notes.

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What is the Marketing Finance and Protection (MPAF) Podcast?

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It\\u2019s the Podcast for Financial Services Professionals looking to share business ideas and inspiration in the world of Marketing, Protection and Finance.

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The MPAF Podcast is a 30 minute audio show you download from http://rogeredwards.co.uk/MPAF, iTunes or Stitcher Radio. Each week I\\u2019ll be interviewing financial services providers, advisers, experts and journalists.

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Interviews to listen to in the car, on the train or on the treadmill.

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The main focus of the podcast is on what we can do to make protection and finance more accessible to the consumer and how financial services professionals can develop and promote their businesses.

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We\\u2019ll look at financial services products, interesting business models and campaigns with an emphasis on the following:

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Marketing \\u2013 talking about how financial services professionals can develop and promote their businesses using traditional marketing tools but focussing on modern content marketing and social media techniques.

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Protection \\u2013 talking about life insurance, critical illness, income protection and other protection products

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Finance \\u2013...'