Fees and value
When the price of advice became more visible
The Retail Distribution Review and the changing presentation of investment advice charges.
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Stories about the events, research and everyday decisions that shape how we save, spend and plan.
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Retirement and pensions
Lost pensions: the cost of losing contact
Why losing contact with an old scheme can distort a retirement plan, and what the free tracing service actually finds.
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Retirement and pensions
Pension Wise and the new retirement choices
The guidance service introduced alongside pension freedoms.
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Money through time
When cheques stopped making the whole journey
How imaging changed the processing of a familiar paper payment.
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Family and inheritance
The generation that grew up with Child Trust Funds
A savings policy whose full story took years to reach adulthood.
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Saving and investing
When the New ISA arrived
The 2014 savings reform that changed the rules partway through a tax year.
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Saving and investing
Why the Lifetime ISA was created
The savings bonus designed around a first home and later life.
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Saving and investing
The Post Office Savings Bank
How everyday access became part of Britain's savings story.
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The wartime arrival of the Bradbury pound
The Treasury notes that entered everyday circulation in 1914.
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The cash machine that changed banking hours
The Enfield machine and the shift towards accessing money beyond bank opening times.
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Money through time
The 2022 gilt crisis
How long-term pension arrangements faced an urgent need for cash.
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Protecting your finances
How the FSCS came together
The creation of a single compensation scheme for failures across financial services.
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