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When your boss becomes your banker
Well-meaning companies are increasingly offering financial services such as loans or pay advances. What is the risk?
Financial Times
Autumn Statement: What it means for your money
Key changes affecting personal taxes, investments, pensions and property
Financial Times
A child’s eye view of the cost of living crisis
From saving pocket money to better budgeting and giving to charity, children’s financial habits are changing
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: High interest rates? Time to get saving
Why cash savings should now be part of your financial plan
Financial Times
Mortgage shock: what next for embattled borrowers?
Spiralling home loan rates add to households’ cost of living pressures
Financial Times
Masters of rap could help bridge the financial literacy gap
These artists may be living large, but many of them are very financially savvy
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: Mind the gap! What women need to know about investing
Listen to a masterclass with Emilie Bellet, founder of Vestpod
Financial Times
Fintechs have made people’s lives unnecessarily complicated
The proliferation of products creates confusion rather than clarity
Financial Times
Electricity calculator: how much will your bills cost this winter?
Find out how much your electrical devices and appliances will set you back under the new energy price cap
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: the mini-budget’s maxi impact
Who wins and who loses in Truss and Kwarteng’s overhaul of tax rates
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: cooking hacks to keep your food bill down
How much does the way you prepare your meals affect how much you are spending?
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: supermarket hacks to keep your food bill down
Claer Barrett takes to the supermarket aisles to find the best tips for keeping the cost to a minimum
Financial Times
Personal inflation calculator: what is your inflation rate?
As the cost of living continues to rise, find out how much inflation could affect your personal finances
Financial Times
Have lunch with FT’s Martin Wolf or Claer Barrett
Bid for your chance to meet FT columnists in the Flic charity auction
Financial Times
A ‘back to school’ moment for your finances
Budget-busting challenges ahead mean everyone needs to check their sums this autumn
Financial Times
Don’t let energy price wars nuke our personal finances
As price cap heralds 80% rise in bills this winter, there’s no time to waste
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: Could you retire in your thirties with FIRE?
What the movement can teach us about investing and living a more meaningful life
Financial Times
Tech Tonic podcast: A sceptic’s guide to crypto
After the crash, why do so many people still believe crypto has a future?
Financial Times
Workers halt pension savings as cost of living crisis bites
Warning over long-term damage to retirement funds
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: Help, I’ve been priced out of the rental market
Practical tips for renters dealing with rent increases and bidding wars
Financial Times
Cost of living crisis pushes households to breaking point
Community lenders are struggling to meet unprecedented demand as the desperate seek loans to cover food and bills
Financial Times
Support surges for campaigners urging non-payment of energy bills
Experts warn consumers that halting direct debits could mean higher bills and poorer credit scores
Financial Times
Video: Fighting financial exclusion in the Gypsy and Traveller community
Already marginalised, they face further problems when it comes to obtaining home and car insurance, or even banking access
Financial Times
Are you due a share of £50bn of lost assets?
More effort should go into tracking down the owners of lost accounts
Financial Times
Victims of financial crime suffer psychological shocks
Campaign group report attacks UK’s regulatory framework for financial services
Financial Times
Employers urged to help workers navigate stresses of cost of living crisis
Mounting money worries spark calls for companies to support workers’ financial wellbeing
Financial Times
Father’s Day advice for new investors
As markets turn bearish, will young investors run screaming into the woods?
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: Dad, mum or the internet?
Young people are turning to the internet — rather than their parents — to learn about money
Financial Times
UK’s credit gap will gape in this cost of living crisis
Illegal money lending appears to be rising as higher energy and food bills push those in need towards loan sharks
Financial Times
A jubilee year for the state pension?
Through the generations, women need to ensure they will have cause to celebrate in retirement
Financial Times
Hard lessons from the crypto crash
Can anything challenge the belief that investing in digital assets is a guaranteed route to riches?
Financial Times
UK households resort to ‘buy now pay later’ loans to cover energy bills
Consumer groups say use of finance schemes points to deepening of cost of living crisis
Financial Times
Instagram must stop the scammers targeting Gen Z
Cloned accounts con followers of genuine financial content creators out of thousands
Financial Times
Q&A: A guide for Ukrainian refugees and their UK hosts
How to navigate finances, benefits, employment rules and avoid sticky situations
Financial Times
Cancelling Netflix won’t solve energy price crunch
Extreme energy rationing shows growing desperation of people in fuel poverty
Financial Times
What can the Rolling Stones teach us about financial literacy?
How the demographics of the super group’s fan base are tuned in to retirement planning
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: Should I save for a property or a pension?
As wages fail to keep pace with soaring property prices, younger investors face tough choices
Financial Times
Young people scammed on Instagram highlight UK surge in online crime
Efforts to tackle steep rise in fraud are stymied by under-resourced and outdated strategies
Financial Times
Basic maths skills oil the wheels of financial literacy
The biggest service we could do for future financial literacy is to embed mathematical skills for today’s pupils
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: Budget to beat the rising cost of living
With ‘Awful April’ around the corner, budgeting is a skill everyone needs to master
Financial Times
The best financial rule I ever learnt? Open the bills
Emotion plays a surprising role in our understanding of personal finance
Financial Times
The UK ‘back to the office budget’ does not add up for women
Working flexibly could save money, but at what cost to their careers?
Financial Times
Seven things women need to know about money
Experts share inspirational tips on how to transform your finances
Financial Times
‘Buy now pay later’ boom fuels consumer debt concerns as transactions soar
Regulators scrutinise sector that allows customers to delay payments
Financial Times
Improving financial literacy must be a priority for Europe
One in three EU households are unable to meet unexpected shocks to their finances
Financial Times
Half of UK adults need ‘urgent help’ managing their money
Consumers say better financial education would reduce indebtedness
Financial Times
Beware the property trap ensnaring young buyers
Under-40s find the Lifetime Isa has shortlived benefits
Financial Times
Money Clinic podcast: The ultimate tax return guide
The ins and outs of self-assessment ahead of the January 31 deadline
Financial Times
The struggles of migrants to build a business
Despite many obstacles, new arrivals have a record of entrepreneurship
Financial Times
Lucy Kellaway’s crypto classroom confessions
Lucy Kellaway, Patrick Jenkins and Peter Spiegel talk financial literacy with Claer Barrett
Financial Times
Teaching personal finance with hair extensions
Ex-banker wins teaching prize with novel lessons on the cost of consumer credit
Financial Times
Repeat – What’s your financial New Year’s resolution?
Investments, will-writing and other financial resolutions for the 2022 to-do list
Financial Times
Should you invest in a startup?
Angel investors can expect to kiss a lot of frogs — so beware of handing over more capital than you can afford to lose
Financial Times
Do you pay too much for financial advice?
Clients expect ‘advice by Zoom’ to be cheaper than face-to-face
Financial Times
How can I use Isas to invest or buy a property?
A complete guide to the UK’s tax-free savings accounts
Financial Times
Interactive Investor shares open letter on financial education
Letter to the education secretary and Financial Services Consumer panel calls for a series of urgent measures
Interactive Investor
FT launches first Christmas appeal to benefit its new charity
The Financial Times has launched its annual Seasonal Appeal
UK Fundraising
Don’t dismiss UK banking’s ‘consumer duty’ as fluff
Done properly, the regulation could mean upheaval for the sector and be a force for financial literacy and inclusion
Financial Times
Courtney Love: why you’ve got to do the math
As part of the FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign, the musician shares her story about making – and losing – a fortune
Financial Times
How safe are digital assets?
How do digital assets work and how does the underlying blockchain technology support them?
Financial Times
Calling all teenagers: could you write an article for the FT?
The annual competition offers cash prizes and more
Financial Times
Vanishing cash means ‘digital literacy’ is vital
Teaching children to be financially literate comes at a cost
Financial Times
China fights a financial fraud explosion
Tens of thousands are falling victim to fraud despite government attempts to combat the scammers
Financial Times
Repeat – Help! I need to sort out my pensions
How to manage your pension pots and state pension contributions
Financial Times
UK Treasury minister backs calls for tighter rules to tackle online fraud
John Glen ‘sympathetic’ to holding tech companies responsible for addressing fake ads
Financial Times
Low adult numeracy is holding the UK back
Confidence-boosting can help people with a fear of numbers
into better jobs, breaking the generational low-skills cycle
Financial Times
Cryptocurrencies: how regulators lost control
How did regulators lose control and can they get a grip now?
Or is there a danger that overregulation stifles innovation?
Financial Times
How to ask for a pay rise – and get one!
This week, Money Clinic is having a pay rise takeover – we’ll be pulling apart that big, scary box labelled ‘Asking for a pay rise’
Financial Times
FT readers respond: Cryptocurrency in the classroom
Can schoolchildren learn the value of money via trading apps?
Financial Times
Crypto in the classroom
In an age when trading apps have made investment cool, understanding money is more important than ever
Financial Times
Real Living Wage rises to £9.90 an hour
More than 300,000 people are getting a pay boost of 40p to £9.90 an hour
BBC News
Meghan Markle just proved she’s the money-saving icon we never knew we needed
Pass us the coupons please
Cosmopolitan
Simple rules for managing your money
Learning how to budget is a vital skill to master at the beginning of a career
Financial Times
Low-income households ‘priced out’ of insurance market
Higher cost of cover is biggest contributor to ‘poverty premium’ as increasing use of data leads to closer risk profiling
Financial Times
The perils of making a fortune at a young age
Young sports stars and celebrities face big challenges managing life-changing pots of money
Financial Times
Students in the state must pass financial literacy test
Ohio governor Mike DeWine has signed into law a bill that requires students to pass a financial literacy program to graduate
WFMJ
Sunak backs £560m numeracy plan
First-ever financial education textbook lands in schools
All 3,400 state-funded secondary schools in England will get 100 free copies of a financial education textbook
MoneySavingExpert
Low adult numeracy is holding the UK back
Confidence-boosting can help people with a fear of numbers into better jobs, breaking the generational low-skills cycle
Financial Times
Meet FLIC’s first influencer
Ola Majekodunmi is working with FLIC to narrow the financial literacy gap by producing content for use in schools and online
FT FLIC
The financial secrets of footballers, part one
Sol Campbell shares what it’s like to earn serious money as a footballer on the Money Clinic podcast with the FT’s Claer Barett
Financial Times
‘We need people to know the ABC of finance’: facing up to the financial literacy crisis
Economist Annamaria Lusardi helps young people gain skills to manage their money
Financial Times
Ex-Prime Minister backs new Financial Times charity
Gordon Brown has thrown his support behind a new charity aimed at boosting the financial literacy in the UK.
ThirdSector
UK schools failing students on financial literacy
British schools are failing to teach pupils about personal finance, new research has shown.
Yahoo! Finance
FT poll shows 90% learnt ‘little or nothing’ about finance at school
The Financial Times has launched a new charity endorsed by the former prime minister Gordon Brown
IFA Magazine
Why financial literacy is a passport to financial freedom
Support the FT’s campaign to improve prospects of millions in Britain and around the world
Financial Times
How a new FT campaign will provide financial knowledge to those who need it most
We aim to combat the ways in which society makes it so expensive to be poor
Financial Times
The lasting legacy of financial literacy
The FT supports a new charity to improve public understanding of money
Financial Times
Letter from the editor on the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
The Financial Times launches its bold new charitable initiative
Financial Times
How much is bad maths costing Britain?
Plain Numbers Project doubles the number of consumers who understand their bills
Financial Times
Meet the teen investors of the future
Winners of the FT’s personal finance competition see beyond meme stocks
Financial Times
Why financial literacy matters more than ever
As the economic climate worsens, the FT’s new foundation aims to help improve money management skills for the most vulnerable
Financial Times
Lack of confidence is impeding women’s financial literacy, study finds
Nervousness in money matters may have ramifications for gender equality struggle, researchers believe
Financial Times
Letter from the editor on the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
The Financial Times is to launch a new, ambitious charitable initiative
Financial Times
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When your boss becomes your banker via @FT
Employers are finding ways to offer staff loans, pay advances and other financial perks as the cost of living crisis bites. What are the risks and will it work? Would it be better just to pay staff more? https://on.ft.com/3XfCPUi
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The £400 support package will not be repeated next year, but households on means tested benefits will receive a cost of living payment worth £900, pensioner households will receive £300 and those with disabilities £150 #FTFLIC #CostOfLiving #Budget2023
What does the #autumnstatement mean for your money? Ultimately, you'll have less of it!
Here's the FT's •free to read• one-minute explainer of today's key measures for your personal finances: https://www.ft.com/content/11a826bf-6cd2-410f-8d05-254ad833fb75
As @Tesco overhauls its yellow sticker policy, here’s the #moneyclinic podcast I made with “Yellow Sticker Gal” Laura Gaga who’s saved thousands over the years by only ever buying discounted groceries 🛒 #fightfoodwaste #costofliving #lorraine
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/money-clinic-with-claer-barrett/id287031335?i=1000580014280
Here’s a visual explanation of how “stealth taxes” set to be revealed in the #autumnbudget will suck up more of your future pay 🥤 https://twitter.com/lorraine/status/1593183046106501121
@ClaerB uses a jug of squash to explain how tax hikes will impact our finances. 💷 🤔
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