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Financial literacy

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    Business InsightJohn Gapper
    Millions have been left behind by the payday loans crackdown

    Evlo is relaunching but many subprime lenders have closed after a wave of compensation claims

    Wonga advert
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Should young people raid their pensions to buy a property?

    Allowing Gen Z early access to retirement savings is not going to build more houses

    Illustration of a hand smashing a piggy bank with a hammer with a house
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Rachel Reeves’ Isa reforms must be designed with Gen Z in mind

    The chancellor’s plan to revolutionise retail investment needs young investors

    Parents with a  young baby pore over papers next to an open laptop on a table
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    A third of Gen Z invest by ‘early adulthood’, poll finds

    Regulator concerned over the number of young people putting money into crypto

    A woman watches stock charts on her smartphone
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    FT charity appeal with Magic Breakfast doubles money

    Rosetrees Trust matched readers’ donations in late intervention

  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    FT charity appeal
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

    The FT invites readers to join our campaign to promote financial literacy in the UK and around the world

    Illustration showing people wearing a toolbelt of financial tools
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    ‘Gender numeracy gap’ is hitting women’s earnings power

    One in three UK women say they would not apply for jobs that require working with numbers or data

    Montage of calculator and numeracy symbols
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    The ‘Reeves effect’ turbo charges Isa season

    Palpable fear of future restrictions shows the chancellor should meddle with Isas at her peril

    Illustration of Rachel Reeves with flying cash and bar charts
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Only 1 in 4 young adults received financial education at school, study shows

    Poor access to money management is pushing students towards ‘unreliable’ online resources, says Santander UK chair

    A person holding a calculator
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food

    World-beating ambition drives real-life business practice and free lunches for kids

    Children walking and interacting in an educational indoor setup resembling a miniature town, with storefronts like Lidl and Helen displayed on the walls
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Private investing
    Free reader event: Quiz Stuart Kirk on his investment plans for 2025

    FT columnists Stuart Kirk, Claer Barrett and Moria O’Neill to take reader questions at online webinar

    Line-up of Stuart Kirk, Moira O’Neill and Claer Barrett
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    UK’s elite Marines undergo financial literacy training

    The FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign launches adult education programme for the military

    Recruits doing PT in the gym hall. The Royal Marines commando training centre in Lympstone, Devon.
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Let’s put financial literacy on the breakfast menu

    Schools need to prepare pupils for the digital financial future that awaits them

    Illustration of breakfast items circling around a bank card, calculator, book and pencil
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    FT SeriesHow To Give It in 2025
    Mellody Hobson: ‘Most parents would rather talk about a condom than a credit card’

    The Ariel Investments co-chief executive explains why financial literacy is a family affair

    Mellody Hobson in front of Altarpiece, 1990/1996, by Keith Haring in her New York apartment
  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    The power of putting financial literacy — and buttered toast — on the school curriculum

    Lucy Kellaway looks at how FLIC and Magic Breakfast — the two charities backed by this year’s FT seasonal appeal — are feeding young minds

    A colour illustration of three kids in school uniform, two girls and one boy, eating breakfast. There are backdrop images of robots and one-pound coins. The girl on the left stands, cheering; the other two are seated at a table of bowls of fruit and cereal
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Two vital interventions to boost children’s life chances

    FT Seasonal Appeal backs charities devoted to financial literacy and free school meals

    Close-up of a child’s hand picking up a piece of toast from a stack on a blue plate, with brightly colored dishes and a blurred background
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    What Generation Alpha wants to learn about money

    A sense of the challenges ahead mean primary and secondary schoolchildren are eager for financial literacy

    Michelle Sheridan with 10-year-old son Sawyer at the GoHenry round table event
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Could TikTok, apps and Gemma Collins boost women’s pensions?

    Scottish Widows study shows more than 2mn UK women will not be able to afford to retire

    Reality TV and social media star Gemma Collins is fronting the Pay Your Pension Some Attention campaign
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Make financial education compulsory in English schools, business urges

    Open letter from industry coalition adds pressure on government to ensure children are taught how money works

    Children attend a mathematics lesson at St Mary’s Primary School in Stoke on Trent
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    News in-depthPersonal Finance
    Why are the British so reluctant to invest?

    Millions of people have five-figure sums sitting in cash, in spite of inflation’s corrosive effects

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

    Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Bobby Seagull
    Maths education is failing UK students

    To combat worrying GCSE trends, we must make the discipline relevant to young people

    A frustrated student
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Data is the key to supporting Britain’s poorest pensioners

    As energy bills rise, bolder reforms are needed to identify the 880,000 households missing out on pension credit

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Selling financial freedom: a brash breed of influencers appeal to Gen Z investors

    Private jets, Lambos and selling trading courses for £150 a month — something doesn’t add up in the world of the ‘hustle bros’

  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    Claer Barrett
    Access to cash is the tip of a digital iceberg

    Things are getting back to normal after the CrowdStrike debacle. But for millions of UK adults, the online outage continues

    A customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM)
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