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Wednesday, 19 January, 2022

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Ways to invest your bonus for the long term
Take account of your life plans, tax and risk appetite
Friday, 24 December, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
What Dickens and Scrooge teach us about money
The ghost of Christmas future is looking more expensive by the day
Wednesday, 24 November, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
A puppy for Christmas? Better invest in dog food
Owners increase the care lavished on pets, creating opportunities for suppliers
Wednesday, 20 October, 2021

Investments
Squid Game has lessons for investors
Saving should not be a gamble but are you taking too little risk?
Tuesday, 12 October, 2021

Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast25 min listen
Starting to save for retirement in your 40s
As a late starter with a disability, should I prioritise a pension or Isas?
Friday, 17 September, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Be frugal at 40 and prioritise your pension
As millennials start to enter their fifth decade, their thoughts need to turn to funding retirement
Thursday, 19 August, 2021

Social affairs
Investing in the menopause can offer many rewards
Growing awareness of the problem and femtech could lead to better-run companies delivering higher returns
Friday, 23 July, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
How to teach your bored teenager about investing
One-minute TikTok videos are an unreliable source of financial advice for young people. How can parents do better?
Thursday, 24 June, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Does your fund manager have skin in the game?
Investors are demanding transparency on personal investments
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Thursday, 27 May, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Your pension: think about it earlier and more often
Industry must engage with savers with new tools and ideas
Wednesday, 28 April, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Pubs, pints and a toast to investment ideas
A post-lockdown trip to the local offers the chance to sample tempting financial opportunities
Wednesday, 24 March, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Young investors can only learn about risk by taking risks
FCA warning on dangerous products must not deter savers from entering markets
Thursday, 25 February, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Protecting your money from Covid-23
Pandemic films cannot predict the future, but offer clues about safeguarding your cash
Wednesday, 27 January, 2021

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Try ‘from couch to £5k’ and run the investment marathon
Savers overweight in cash should consider putting the surplus into funds, stocks and bonds
Wednesday, 23 December, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
The 12 days of Christmas for canny investors
From partridge to drummers, a seasonal guide to plum funds
Friday, 20 November, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Investment tips from Jane Austen
Lockdown lessons from a writer fascinated by money
Friday, 23 October, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Ethical investment remains a work in progress
It’s still too challenging to find funds that match your principles
Wednesday, 16 September, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Investing vs gambling: a fine line to tread
Some platforms promote investments that carry a considerably higher level of risk
Thursday, 13 August, 2020

Private investing
My stock market summer school (and why I’m paying my children to do it)
With holiday camps largely closed, a five-day programme that will hopefully pay dividends
Friday, 12 June, 2020

Private investing
Investors need to rethink pension drawdown strategy
Pay close attention to the level of income you draw in retirement
Thursday, 16 April, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
How to teach your children about the stock market
Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment
Wednesday, 11 March, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
How many funds make an ideal portfolio?
Most investors will find that more than 20 or 25 funds is way too many
Thursday, 30 January, 2020

Personal Finance Advice & Comment
Latin and Greek have no place in the investment world
The industry needs to mind its language and adopt plain English
Wednesday, 1 January, 2020

Inheritance
Harry Potter at 40: would he be a financial wizard?
Unlike most millennials, the fictional hero could work magic on his retirement prospects
Friday, 15 November, 2019

FT GuidesInvestment trusts: an FT Money guide
Are ‘dividend hero’ trusts still the investor’s champion?
Investors turning away from UK equity income funds