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Serious Money

  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Secrets of an airline points millionaire

    How far will you travel to collect Avios and EuroBonus points in 2025?

    An image appears to depict a stylized world map with interconnected points, a plane symbolizing travel, a calendar with marked dates, and a points tally (“Points: 102”) in the bottom corner
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Let’s put financial literacy on the breakfast menu

    Schools need to prepare pupils for the digital financial future that awaits them

    Illustration of breakfast items circling around a bank card, calculator, book and pencil
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Do I need inheritance tax insurance?

    Budget changes prompt wave of interest in life cover to avoid families scrambling to pay tax bills

    Illustration of a hand gripping an hourglass with money falling out the bottom
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Will women be the big losers from Rachel Reeves’ first Budget?

    National insurance increases will push up the cost of childcare and hit lower-paid part-time jobs

    Illustration of a woman using her laptop whilst holding a child, and with another child alongside
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Meet ‘Generation Windfall’: coming to an estate agent near you

    Fears of tax rises at the Budget have sent the Bank of Mum and Dad into overdrive

  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    What ‘Monzo millionaires’ can teach us about share options

    If you’re offered options as part of your pay package, what questions should you ask?

    Illustration of a bank card, cash and chart lines
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    The sun is setting on traditional retirement

    Demographic changes force a rethink, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

    Illustration of young and old workers as chess pieces on a chess board
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Time to hit the pensions panic button

    Possible Budget changes would widen the gulf between public and private sector pension schemes

  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    How to make better financial decisions

    Head, heart and network are all important when deciding what to do with our money

    illustration of a woman walking on a pound sign among the clouds that had two arrows leading from it
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    And the Budget changes most feared by FT readers are . . . 

    Attendees of the FT Weekend Festival are selling assets and passing on inheritances ahead of October’s Budget

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

    Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    What’s the chancellor’s next move going to be with my pension?

    Fiddling with pensions taxation could blight the retirement prospects of millions

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Data is the key to supporting Britain’s poorest pensioners

    As energy bills rise, bolder reforms are needed to identify the 880,000 households missing out on pension credit

  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Holiday car rental firms drive me round the bend

    Avoid the car crash of expensive insurance and spurious damage claims on holiday this year

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Would you turn to Reddit for investment ideas?

    It’s no surprise that social platforms are the go-to place when industry communications appear designed to obfuscate

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    How the ‘single tax’ can break financial resilience

    From housing to pensions, those living on their own face an uphill struggle to get ahead

    Illustration of same woman side by side, one with her pockets turned out and the other in a wedding dress
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Could AI make you a better investor?

    The technology is there, now regulators need to play their part

  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Have you got five minutes to talk about investing?

    It is high time we normalised conversations about money

  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Why I’m sticking with my passive Isa strategy

    Given the dominance of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ in global equities funds, should investors worry about diversification?

  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    What women want their financial future to look like

    The Budget and International Women’s Day remind us that the campaign for equality is still far from won

    Illustration of three women, one holding a child with an abacus, against a background of economic charts
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Banks need to wake up to powers of attorney demands

    Research by Which? reveals huge disparity between the best and the worst

  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Even the posh are turning to pawnbrokers

    Tax bills and mortgage pain increase the need for short-term finance among the well-heeled

  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Why do we think we can beat the market?

    Forget get rich quick, aiming for consistency will help you get richer slowly

  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Are credit card points ever worthwhile?

    The wealthier you are, the more alluring deals will be

  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Claer Barrett
    The money question 30-somethings are most likely to ask

    Regulatory shift means more meaningful answers will soon be possible

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