Their success has created a new breed of DIY investor, comfortable with trading inside a stocks and shares Isa or self-invested personal pension (Sipp). It’s a far cry from the days when private investors had to ring a stockbroker or sit down with a financial adviser to discuss their investments, and pay their hefty fees. […]

Klarna could have cornered the over-60s market as baby boomers show signs of embracing buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) payment options. Around one in eight Klarna customers in the UK are aged over 60 and platform says the demographic is their fastest-growing age segment. Over-60s are particularly likely to use the platform to shop for furniture and home […]

The British Gas Energy Trust is offering Britons free and confidential access to money and energy advice, as well as access to energy debt grants, in “Pop-Ups” in Post Offices across the country. Following a successful pilot in May 2022, the British Gas Post Office Pop-Ups have been rolled out to more than 120 events […]

Welsh drivers who break the new 20mph speed limit will be slapped with fines from today, officials have warned. A three-month “grace period” has been in place to allow people to adjust to the change and to allow Highways authorities to adjust road signage and Traffic Regulation Orders. However, this period ends today, even as […]

There is nothing to make your blood run cold like the thought of some chancer taking your savings, scamming you out of your hard-earned or cheating an elderly or vulnerable relative. Only very recently a dear friend of mine (who was nine months pregnant at the time) had some roofers turn up to her house […]

Would you like to make your children, or grandchildren, rich for Christmas? Wouldn’t that be a great gift? It used to be that a cash gift at Christmas was a postal order or a few quid in a Christmas card. But over the years, various governments have created more and more ways for family and […]

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt speaking in London (Image: Maja Smiejkowska/PA) Wasn’t it great when the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, announced in November’s Autumn Statement that the ‘triple lock’ would stay and the state pension would go up by 8.5 per cent in April 2024? If you’re mainly living off the state pension, you will […]

HMRC has hit back at claims that millions of households across the country are overpaying on stamp duty that featured in new research. Tax expert group Cornerstone is reporting that taxpayers are overpaying on the levy by a shocking average of £27,000. According to the tax specialist, HMRC is taking longer than the six-week period […]

Women investing an additional one percent into their workplace pensions during their career – even while taking breaks to raise children or care for older relatives – could build bigger retirement pots than if they had no gaps at all. Fidelity International’s analysis proves the power of one percent in supporting women’s career breaks and […]

That’s how it seems, anyway. At the first glimpse of positive feeling, BoE governor Andrew Bailey invariably pops up to tip a bucket of cold water over all of us. Now he’s just done it again. It’s a shame because things really are looking up as markets sense inflation has peaked and central bankers such […]