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  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Time to hit the pensions panic button

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

  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    The couples’ conundrum: joint or separate finances?

    In many cases, it’s best — financially — to go your separate ways

  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    On Wall StreetJuan Luis Perez
    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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  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The British are decent savers, but bad investors

    Households and the UK economy would be better off if cash piles were made to work harder

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  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Neal Hudson
    Low mortgage rates are no panacea for first-time buyers

    With the Bank of England’s lending criteria, they’re likely to achieve little

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  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    John Ralfe
    Collective schemes: a false dawn for pensions

    Intergenerational risk-sharing is a much-touted myth

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  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Should we let friends share our nanny?

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

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    In investing, what if bad is good and good is bad?

    As with parenting, constraints are not enemies. Quite the opposite in fact

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Rich People’s ProblemsJames Max
    Was buying the Rolls-Royce a mistake?

    Servicing costs are crippling, but it’s an investment, right?

    Illustration of a hand putting money into a Rolls-Royce with money flying out of the exhaust pipe.
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I best divorce my abusive husband?

    I’m afraid he will put me through economic hell

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Pension investors seek better means to force action on climate

    Savers with environmental and other ethical concerns now have plenty of options to vote with their money

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Clare Munro
    The risks of giving the family home to your children early

    The ‘dower principle’ of passing on a residence while still alive can have advantages if you’re trying to minimise IHT — but there are pitfalls

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Personal Insurance
    Are you paying too much for insurance?

    Many take out the wrong kind of protection insurance, leaving them with overlapping — or inadequate — cover

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  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Simon Edelsten
    Businesses change over time — here’s how investors can capitalise

    Companies often evolve through restructuring. As investors, we have to be on top of the detail

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Financial Advice
    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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  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    What investments can I use to limit my inheritance tax liability?

    I’m also considering setting up a trust for my two adult children but am open to other ideas

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    David Crook
    The Spac trap has been reset, not eliminated

    If new rules for ‘blank-cheque’ vehicles lead to a revival investors should tread carefully

    People consider a blank cheque sitting in an oversized mousetrap
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Markets InsightJohn Ramsay
    The SEC needs to take action over penny stock listings

    The number of low-price, highly speculative stocks on exchanges has exploded, harming investors

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  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Toby Nangle
    Inflation-proofing pensions is no mean feat

    A balanced portfolio has the best chance of preserving the long-term value of pension savings against price rise shocks

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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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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Moira O'Neill
    Should you always ‘fill to the max’ on tax-free allowances?

    Investors are rushing to use their allotments for Isa and pensions accounts in anticipation of Labour’s first Budget

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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    Three big investment questions I’m asking now — and so should you

    As the fourth quarter looms, portfolio risk, US equities and China are all that matters

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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    John Lee
    John Lee: 25 years of stockpicking successes . . .  and a few failures

    The first Isa millionaire says there are only two essentials in investing: common sense and patience

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Skin in the GameStuart Kirk
    Can I buy emerging stocks without touching Asia?

    I’m after any funds replicating an emerging markets ex-Asia index

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer 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

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