FT Money Show
Summary: The FT Money Show brings you engaging and insightful coverage of the week’s major personal finance issues. Claer Barrett and her team of FT journalists dissect the news with the help of leading industry commentators and discuss how the latest events will affect you and your pocket. The FT Money Show is produced by Lucy Warwick-Ching. You can find more personal finance news from the Financial Times on our website and listen to more episodes of FT Money Show on iTunes, Stitcher, Audioboom or Soundcloud.
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This week the Money Show looks at strategies to avoid the child benefit cuts, and other investment vehicles for children’s funds, whether bond investors should seek safer havens and whether new mortgage lending rules will hit the wealthy
How to get a decent rate on your cash Isa, the latest on house prices and are the latest financial mobile applications any good?
Is it worth transferring your personal pension? We look at the exit charges that can make all the difference. Plus - high-earners' tax bills, and how to get a buy-to-let mortgage.
Why are high street banks so keen to talk about investment bonds? Can property buyers think about new-build again? Plus the IC at 150.
The latest news on the tax bill debacle, whether investing in corporate bonds funds is still a good idea, and where are the best places overseas to draw your pensions?
Which high street banks get the most customer complaints? Bad funds are merged into good ones, so how can we tell how they are performing? And
Interest rates could rise sharply if inflation gets out of control - so how can savers find the best deals? Not all absolute return funds are making absolute returns - we look at why. And could being too near to a shop or a pub prevent you getting a mortgage?
Cheap tracker mortgages - why there's no need to get them while stocks last. Inflation proofed savings are here again. And cautious managed funds - why it turns out that data providers can't get their facts right
How can house sales be increasing when mortgage approvals and house prices are falling? When is a cautious managed fund not a cautious managed fund? And what should parents of students be doing: renting or buying universtity digs?
Do banks shareholders have much to shout about? Banks have also been cutting their mortgage rates, but will applicants for interest only loans get a look in? And even when you're on your holiday, can you bank determine how good a time you have?
We examine new proposals for lower pension contributions and a longer working life. Will you learn to love your bank? Metro Bank reckons you will. And will your holiday-home become less tax efficient?
Where to put your money now index linked certificates have disappeared. What should you do with your pension fund, while the government consults on new annuity rules? And where will you find an investment property offering a rental yield of more than 6 per cent?
Will you get a large loan if you have to prove you can afford it? Will you see your pension get smaller, if its index linked to the CPI rather than the RPI. And will you get a windfall, if private equity investors do a deal with your building society?
Why private banks lost investors more than 60 per cent last year. Why some "low-cost" funds can land you with a much higher tax bill. And why should you pay fees to spend your own money on holiday?
Investors are piling back into buy-to-let - but are there good deals out there? With-profits providers have been slammed for treating customers poorly - but what can you do about it? And, we look at the best savings deals
