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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Meet the 30-year-old accountant teaching seven-year-olds about money

    Abigail Foster says we must start young to ensure the next generation is financially savvy

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  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
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    Giving your finances a check-up can be vital for those who embarked on retirement on an unsustainable financial footing

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  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Almost 60% of UK women complain of financial ‘mansplaining’, survey finds

    More than a quarter of those interviewed say they have been told how to budget by a man

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
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    Plans to introduce ‘default’ pathways sound risky, but the risk of doing nothing is even greater

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
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    The ‘Reeves effect’ turbo charges Isa season

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  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
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    Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025

    From money-saving work perks to investments and tax planning, resolve to get your finances in shape this new year

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  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
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    UK adviser reaps rewards in shifting industry landscape

    True Potential’s revenues have grown rapidly after huge regulatory changes

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  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
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    Money dysmorphia: the high earners convinced they are poor

    Younger people in particular have often unfounded worries over lack of funds

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
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    Claer Barrett’s Budget debrief

    The FT’s consumer guru offers her round-up of the eight best Budget stories to help you make sense of it all

  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
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    AI is coming for wealth management

    If Silicon Valley is right and the technology progresses, we may witness a new wave of industry disruption 

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  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
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    Should we let friends share our nanny?

    How would this work in practice with pay, holiday and tax?

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Johnston Carmichael named top IFA for third year in a row

    UK financial advice firm beats competition from larger, national companies in the annual FT Adviser rankings

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

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

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  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
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    I’m British but I live abroad, so where should I divorce?

    I think I would be better off financially if I filed for divorce in the UK

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

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

  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
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  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
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    Wealthy Brits could give one-third more to charity, finds survey

    Research suggests that better financial advice would help people to be more philanthropic

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  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Why are fewer people getting financial advice?

    Numbers are down on last year, thanks in part to the burden of new regulations. But is this necessarily a bad thing?

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  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    How to protect your wealth from future Labour tax raids

    Advisers plot ways to ‘Labour-proof’ clients’ finances after landslide victory

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
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    The great wealth transfer is coming (but are advisers prepared?)

    Compared with their parents, children often have different expectations when it comes to managing their money

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  • 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?

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