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6 months
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has found that former NatWest chief executive Alison Rose twice breached data protection laws when she spoke to a journalist about the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account.
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8 years
@MerrynSW says #Brexit will not be disastrous:
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5 years
Claer Barrett wins Personal Finance Journalist of the Year at Wincott Awards
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5 years
MPs and peers call for suspension of loan charge
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1 year
Comment: Investors should be wary of a repeat of last year’s ‘transitory inflation’ type of mistake, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm .
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Comment: Investors should be wary of a repeat of last year’s ‘transitory inflation’ type of mistake, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm .
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9 years
Stamp duty reform ends ‘tax on aspiration’ http://t.co/YryAuFCzRg
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9 years
UK pension plan ‘unworkable’, says expert http://t.co/3ze82t7nS1
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2 years
Comment: The stunning shift in the market mood and prices over the past week is testament to the underlying instability in the environment for policymakers and investors. And it is an instability that will intensify, says @elerianm .
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1 year
Comment: Investors should be wary of a repeat of last year’s ‘transitory inflation’ type of mistake, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm .
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2 years
Comment: "If you hope to distinguish yourself in terms of investment performance, you have to be more right than others, which means your thinking has to be different and better." @HowardMarksBook
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5 years
Loan charge suicide sparks calls for PM to halt policy
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5 months
Something peculiar is unfolding once again in the relationship between financial markets and the US Federal Reserve, says @elerianm
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2 years
Comment: "It is time for proponents of sustainable investing to respond to some inconvenient truths of their own. The voices raised in criticism of ESG — investing with environmental, social and governance standards — are credible and powerful."
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1 year
Comment: Investors should be wary of a repeat of last year’s ‘transitory inflation’ type of mistake, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm .
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1 year
This is an investment world that will reward much greater selectivity and dynamic asset allocation, writes Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm
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5 months
Something peculiar is unfolding once again in the relationship between financial markets and the US Federal Reserve, says @elerianm
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2 years
Ark Investment Management chief executive Cathie Wood has stepped down as portfolio manager of the company’s two index funds, in the third shake-up of the firm’s portfolio management roster in as many months.
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1 year
This is an investment world that will reward much greater selectivity and dynamic asset allocation, writes Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm
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@ftmoney
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2 years
The Health and Social Care committee has called NHS pension arrangements ‘a national scandal’ as senior doctors are being forced to reduce their hours or stop work entirely.
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@ftmoney
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3 years
In case you missed it, this was our most-read story this month. @MartinSLewis on rumoured changes to student loan repayments.
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5 years
Getting some great feedback on iTunes for our FT Money show. Listeners especially loved our podcast on the new #hmrc #LoanChargeReview presented by @ClaerB and @EmmaAgyemang . We’d love to hear what you think:
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1 year
This is an investment world that will reward much greater selectivity and dynamic asset allocation, writes Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm
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@ftmoney
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11 months
Comment: If Fed policymakers keep US interest rates unchanged at their meeting this week, it may be the worst of three imperfect policy options, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm .
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2 years
Comment: After eye-popping price drops in the first half of the year and a bit of a bounce in recent weeks, more analysts are recommending higher across-the-board exposure to emerging market assets. Is now the time, asks @elerianm
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@ftmoney
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7 months
Podcast: Economist and investor Mohamed El-Erian tells Money Clinic host Claer Barrett why he’s taking a wait-and-see approach to equities and gives his take on investment strategies in a high-inflation environment. @elerianm @claerb
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Podcast: Economist and investor Mohamed El-Erian tells Money Clinic host Claer Barrett why he’s taking a wait-and-see approach to equities and gives his take on investment strategies in a high-inflation environment. @elerianm @claerb
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@ftmoney
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7 months
Unusual volatility in yields points to longer-term challenges for most influential segment of world’s financial markets, says Mohamed El-Erian. @elerianm .
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Podcast: Economist and investor Mohamed El-Erian tells Money Clinic host Claer Barrett why he’s taking a wait-and-see approach to equities and gives his take on investment strategies in a high-inflation environment. @elerianm @claerb
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1 year
Comment: "Bankers are still remunerated as if they are owners or entrepreneurs taking personal risk." This needs to stop, says @stuartkirk__
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6 months
UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt should direct more resources to AI, life sciences and the green energy transition in his Autumn Statement, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm
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11 months
Comment: If Fed policymakers keep US interest rates unchanged at their meeting this week, it may be the worst of three imperfect policy options, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm .
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@ftmoney
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2 years
Opinion: It may be the latest political and financial obsession, but cryptocurrencies remain something with no inherent value.
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2 years
One of Britain’s biggest energy suppliers is pressing ministers to pass on an estimated £180m value added tax windfall from higher electricity and gas bills to the most vulnerable households, as a cost of living crisis looms.
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3 years
Do you do FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early has soared in popularity under lockdown, and @ClaerB has interviewed one of its chief proponents @mrmoneymustache who 'retired' age 30 after cutting spending and maxing out his investments: #moneyclinic
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Something peculiar is unfolding once again in the relationship between financial markets and the US Federal Reserve, says @elerianm
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2 years
Terry Smith: Who is to blame for the latest pensions debacle? "If you are a long-term investor — as any pension fund should be — and you try to eliminate price volatility from your portfolio, you will fail and end up focused on the wrong risk"
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@ftmoney
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8 years
Moving abroad? Beware the wealth management 'bandits' who work overseas:
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6 months
. @elerianm The big central banks need to use their time outs wisely, writes Mohamed El-Erian.
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1 year
Nearly two in five Britons in a relationship have hidden money from their partner, according to a report published for Valentine’s Day.
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10 months
Excessive wage increases are increasingly being framed as the sole cause of a UK inflation problem that is causing mortgage difficulties and forcing families to make tough choices with their shrinking purchasing power, says Mohamed El-Erian @elerianm
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4 years
Congratulations to @JosephineCumbo - winner of the award for Outstanding Contribution to Institutional Journalism at the 2019 State Street institutional press awards #awards
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3 years
When was the last time you paid in cash? Latest figures show cash use plunged 35% in 2020 as contactless, mobile and smartwatch payments climbed @UKFtweets @ClaerB
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5 years
Are you facing a tax bill that is so large you can't pay it? FT Money delves into the impact of a new HMRC tax charge
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2 years
Comment: 'Violent financial and geopolitical regime change is upending the status quo and the bubbly valuations that hinge on it,' says Whitney Baker @TotemMacro
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1 year
British consumers have cut back on spending more than almost any other industrialised country as the cost of living crisis takes hold with the latest data and economists’ forecasts pointing to the trend continuing in to next year.
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3 years
Read this if you're considering investing in crypto.
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#investmentwatch Next has acquired the brand, domain names and intellectual property of for £3.4mn in a prepack administration less than 18 months after the online furniture retailer floated in London with a valuation of £775mn.
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Leaseholders in a Canary Wharf block of flats have secured a rare victory against their landlord in a battle over excessive service charges after a tribunal ruled they paid £1.6mn too much.
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@ftmoney
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8 years
Are oil stocks the contrarian buying opportunity of a generation? #FTMoneyShow discusses:
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8 years
This @paullewismoney column is our most read right now:
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3 years
Banks and building societies can freeze accounts without any notice if they see fit, so what are your rights if it happens to you?
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2 years
This story of Warren Buffett's million-dollar bet and the power of passive investing was a big hit with readers. #BestofFTMoney21
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9 years
Is prime London property set for breakneck growth? Estate agents say...
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11 months
"What grates on house prices is the same problem I have with our obsession with interest rates," says @stuartkirk__ . "We are blind to the facts, but seemingly don’t care — a mass delusion on an epic scale".
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2 years
Ukraine plans to become the first developed country to issue its own collection of NFTs, as it looks to capitalise on a flood of crypto donations to back its war against Russia.
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1 year
Comment: 'I believe overpaying your mortgage can seriously harm your future wealth'. says Michael Taylor @shiftingshares . Find out why at
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2 years
Teaching youngsters basic maths skills sets the wheels in motion for greater financial literacy in later life, argues Hilary Cooper. @FT_FLIC
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6 years
Ken Fisher: The bull market could have three more years to run
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3 years
Surge in workers unwittingly put into ‘tax avoidance’ arrangements
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5 years
What is making women around the world anonymously share their financial spending secrets? Find out what's driving the the phenomenal success of the Money Diaries
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2 years
The housing boom in Britain during the past two decades has delivered an “unearned, unequal and untaxed windfall” that has benefited the older generation, richer people and Londoners the most, according to a new study.
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2 years
Comment: After eye-popping price drops in the first half of the year and a bit of a bounce in recent weeks, more analysts are recommending higher across-the-board exposure to emerging market assets. Is now the time, asks @elerianm
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4 months
Paddric Fitzgerald's daughter called him in terror, saying she'd been kidnapped. He was on his way to the bank before discovering it was a scam. It wasn't his daughter at all, but a voice clone generated by AI, the latest tool in criminals' armoury.
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2 years
“I’ve stopped saving because what would it be worth in five years?" The cost of living crisis adds to the financial pressures felt by UK millennials.
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7 years
Time to bin your buy-to-let? With all the tax changes, our calculator helps you see if it is still worth it:
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1 year
Comment: UK first-time buyers say penalties and a price cap blight the Lifetime Isa. "Early critics of the Lisa said it was a poorly designed product that would end up doing two things badly, instead of one thing well. Sadly, they were right." says @ClaerB
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Comment: All that bitcoin — and the other cryptos — have proven themselves to be is temporarily turbocharged plays on money printing. I can make a case for there being residual value in almost any asset. I can’t make one for bitcoin, says @merrynsw .
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3 years
We think an ageing society is bad for the health of our pensions, productivity and consumer spending. Time to question our assumptions, says Merryn Somerset Webb. via @financialtimes
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Taxpayer in court challenge to UK-US data pact
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8 years
The FTSE 100 has been the best performing asset over #Brexit , the pound the worst. H/T @jpmorgan :
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British households have cancelled video subscriptions in record numbers as they curb non-essential spending to cope with the cost of living squeeze, reinforcing concerns that a pandemic-fuelled boom in streaming is over.
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What's your personal inflation rate? Find out with our hugely popular free-to-use interactive calculator
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. @paullewismoney on why history teaches us that UK interest rates are only likely to rise.
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Millions of British households could face a 56 per cent rise in their energy bills from April, pushing them towards the £2,000-a-year mark
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Having worked hard all your life, how to ensure your children don’t catch rich kid-itis:
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Foreign investment in emerging market stocks and bonds outside China has come to an abrupt halt over fears that many economies will not recover from the pandemic next year.
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8 years
How Airbnb went corporate (free to read):
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This selfie mask shows why the wealthy should be worried about the biometric IDs banks want us to use for security:
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2 years
This telling tale of Warren Buffett's million-dollar wager and the power of passive investing was a huge hit with our weekend readers. Read it here
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5 years
Readers respond to ‘Living in the shadow of a tax scandal’
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My general election money manifesto
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