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              • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
                Financial literacy
                What Generation Alpha wants to learn about money

                A sense of the challenges ahead mean primary and secondary schoolchildren are eager for financial literacy

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              • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
                Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast29 min listen
                Can Stuart Kirk double his money in eight years?

                Investment pundit Stuart Kirk shares his master plan for building wealth

              • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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                What does it mean to be a building society member?

                Mutuals grow to hold a 23 per cent share in the mortgage market

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              • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
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                Do sneakers deserve a place in your investment portfolio?

                We examine the pros and cons of footwear collecting craze

              • Friday, 21 June, 2024
                Moira O'Neill
                Should you really open the Bank of Mum and Dad?

                ‘Nepo-investors’ are on the rise, but will they spend wisely?

              • Friday, 22 March, 2024
                Investing in funds
                Isas: the nation’s tax-free favourite turns 25

                The tax-sheltered investment scheme provides a lifeline for millions of savers

              • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
                Isas
                Cash Isas surge in popularity as interest rates rise

                Gap between top-paying bonds and Isas has shrunk

              • Saturday, 30 December, 2023
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                Four ways to sort out your financial life in 2024

                New year resolutions to revolutionise your relationship with money

              • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Five ways to fix the Isa regime

                Ahead of the Autumn Statement, here’s my wish list for reforming tax-free saving and investing

              • Friday, 3 November, 2023
                Challenger banks look to exploit higher savings rates

                Newcomers offer more attractive deals than incumbents in a bid to win market share. Will savers respond?

              • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
                Investments
                Why Mohamed El-Erian favours cash over equities for now

                Top economist reveals his personal investment strategy on the FT’s Money Clinic podcast

              • Friday, 29 September, 2023
                Isas
                How to make Isas even nicer

                The chancellor is ‘open to ideas’ about reforming tax-free accounts, so what could investors expect?

              • Friday, 29 September, 2023
                Moira O'Neill
                Investing for income in the ‘new normal’

                Cash savings rates are attractive, but may not pay off in the long term

              • Friday, 22 September, 2023
                UK politics
                Hunt plans Isa overhaul to boost share ownership

                Treasury looks to simplify tax-free savings regime and weighs new allowance for investments in UK companies

                Jeremy Hunt and an ISA application topsheet
              • Friday, 4 August, 2023
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Grandparents: give the gift of investment education

                As inheritance tax bills rise, pass on your financial savvy as well as your cash

              • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
                Banking & Savings
                MPs extend campaign over low savings rates

                As base rate rises to 4.5%, some high street banks offer less than 1% on easy access accounts

                Logos of major UK savings providers
              • Friday, 21 April, 2023
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                The dash for cash savings is a new experience for many UK customers

                If you rediscover the savings habit, don’t let higher taxes be the sting in the tail

                Boys count the contents of their piggy bank
              • Friday, 14 April, 2023
                Banking & Savings
                After the easy money: a giant stress test for the financial system

                Central banks are caught between tackling rising prices and ensuring stability but their actions hold risks for investors and borrowers

                Two businesspeople strain on a rope to prevent the Bank of England edifice toppling into a chasm while others are helped out of the hole
              • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Isa season this year is a stampede

                Changing tax rules and rising interest rates boost demand, but banks’ customer service has slipped

              • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
                UK Budget
                Boost for savers as NS&I targets cash deposits

                Government increases fund targets of £7.5bn for 2023-24

              • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
                Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
                What’s the best way to pass money to my grandchildren?

                I am 78 years old and in good health so I want to do it now

                An outdoor family dinner party
              • Friday, 10 March, 2023
                Isa Guide 2023
                Cash Isas buoyed by rise in interest rates

                Higher-rate taxpayers in more danger of breaching tax-free allowances

                A pound coin sits on top of a pile of UK banknotes
              • Friday, 10 March, 2023
                FT Money personal finance guides
                FT Money’s guide to Junior Isas

                £9,000 a year can be saved tax free for youngsters

              • Friday, 24 February, 2023
                Bank bonuses
                How does your 2023 bonus measure up?

                FT poll shows more readers are stashing any bonus cash rather than splashing it on luxuries

              • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
                Helen Thomas
                UK banks have rarely had it so good (and it won’t last)

                From July, there will be more scrutiny of how actively they shepherd customers towards better interest rates

                NatWest boss Alison Rose
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