Podcast Episodes

Is it time to dump your Premium Bonds?

The nation's favourite savings product has just got a little less generous.

The prize rate on NS&I's supremely popular Premium Bonds will be slashed from 3.8 per cent to 3.6 per cent from the August…

Published on 4 months ago

How to sort your finances: From budgeting, to savings and pensions

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

How would you spend a lottery jackpot?

What would you do with £208million? Ahead of another Euromillions rollover, This is Money spoke to an adviser to those fortunate few who have scooped a jackpot to get some practical tips on what to d…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

How far would you go to avoid your personal tax raid?

Tax is an increasingly taxing subject for many people who feel hard done by as Britain’s complicated system catches them out.

From quirks of the system, such as the 60 per cent tax trap and child be…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Has Nationwide found a winning formula with its cash bonuses?

Banks have many tricks up their sleeves to try to attract customers and reward loyalty but Britain's biggest building society Nationwide appears to have hit upon a winning formula.
Its Fairer Share p…

Published on 5 months ago

The great wealth transfer - and to do with a windfall

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

What red flags do you need to spot before you buy a home - and how do you find them?

How long did you take looking round your home before you put an offer in for it? The average prospective buyer spends just 43 minutes. 

Surprise, surprise, research suggests that it pays to take you…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

How low will interest rates go - and what does it mean for you?

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Why is the bond market so powerful?

When it comes to investing, it's stock markets that regularly hog the headlines but it's government bond markets that really matter.

Share prices taking a prolonged tumble is one thing but if bonds …

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Banks want to lend you a bigger mortgage - but is that a good idea?

Major banks are tweaking their rules to allow borrowers to get bigger mortgages, while a new upstart lender is offering seven times salary home loans.

Is this a welcome easing of the too tight rules…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago