
What's the link between rocketing car hire prices and inflation?
Just when you thought that you could book to go back in the water. As if sorting a holiday, ensuring the country you want to go to is okay for long enough to get there, or dodging quarantine roulette ...
16 Juli 202143min

Should the triple lock give an 8% state pension rise?
The triple lock has always been a hot potato but things have stepped up another gear as it could deliver a bumper 8 per cent state pension increase due to a statistical quirk.The state pension pledge ...
10 Juli 202149min

Underpaid state pension scandal update alongside the future of pensions and green bonds
Yet more people caught up in the underpaid state pension scandal have been unearthed by This is Money – and tragically, in the two cases we highlight this week, they weren't alive to see justice.Two b...
2 Juli 202151min

How much do you need for a comfortable retirement? (TiM podcast excerpt)
How big a pension pot do you need to save for a comfortable retirement?Pension and investing editor, Tanya Jefferies, discusses research that puts a figure on what people need to retire on, in this ex...
30 Juni 20219min

The stamp duty race to avoid a double false economy
Home buyers are engaged in a last minute race to beat the stamp duty deadline – with some facing a potential double false economy.House prices have bounced over the past year meaning that the £15,000 ...
25 Juni 202153min

Would you invest in sneakers or the new space race?
Sneaker investing – those in the know don’t call them trainers, apparently – has become a big thing in recent years and as values have risen, so has the volume of fakes.It’s not just knock-offs aping ...
18 Juni 202152min

Is loyalty starting to pay for savers and customers?
Does loyalty pay or is it just a bizarre concept we have allowed businesses to convince us might exist while they take advantage?As banks and building societies hint at better rates for those who have...
11 Juni 202150min

Could the 18-year property cycle really predict the next house price crash?
Another week, another house price index stating record growth.This time it was the turn of Nationwide, which said prices had risen 10.9 per cent in the year to April, reaching a new high of £242,832 -...
4 Juni 202139min




















