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Money Matters
My Financial Life – how to help teens and tweens get to grips with money
Thursday 20 Mar 2025This is the last in a series of articles looking at the different financial pressures and opportunities open to women and girls at different decades in their lives. I hadn’t intended to write one focusing in on the teen and tween-age years, as I figured many of the decisions made in this decade are...
My Financial Life – why thinking about your financial goals in your 20s is a smart move
Thursday 20 Feb 2025AJ Bell‘s Money Matters campaign aims to help all women feel good about their financial futures whatever their age and this is one of a series of articles targeted to help women at different points in their lives. Your 20s is a time of discovery, of freedom and of huge change. It’s also a decade...
My Financial Life – juggling demands on your finances in your 30s with the need to plan ahead
Thursday 23 Jan 2025AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign is designed to help every woman feel good investing, whatever their age. We’ve put together a series of articles which breaks down some of the financial pressures you are likely to face as you step into the different decades of your life and provide you with some...
My Financial Life – the key savings and investment decisions in front of you in your 40s
Thursday 12 Dec 2024As part of AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign which is focused on helping all women feel empowered to live their best financial lives, we’re putting together a series of articles breaking down some of the particular considerations depending on your age. This article is all about your 40s, a decade...
My Financial Life – how to think about saving and investing in your 50s
Thursday 21 Nov 2024AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign aims to help more women feel good investing. As part of the campaign, we’ve been pulling together a series of articles considering the particular issues you might be thinking about as you reach different milestones. This article looks at some of the specific issues...
My Financial Life – what you need to consider when you are in your 60s
Thursday 24 Oct 2024As part of AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign, which aims to help more women become empowered to live their best financial lives, we’re putting together a series of articles breaking down some of the particular considerations depending on your age. This article focuses on a hugely important and...
My Financial Life - 70s
Thursday 19 Sep 2024AJ Bell’s Money Matters campaign was launched three years ago with the aim of helping women navigate the massive gender investment gap. This is the first in a series of articles looking at the particular challenges women face at different stages in their financial lives. You might think that by the...
Why ignoring your financial future would be a big mistake
Thursday 22 Aug 2024On the face of it #doomspending might seem fairly harmless, a new incarnation of what used to be called ‘retail therapy’. Splashing out on nice stuff to give us a mood a lift when life is getting us down. But if you watch the videos, it’s actually pretty bleak, all about a dawning financial...
How I balanced a successful career with having children
Thursday 25 Jul 2024Whatever the occasion, audience, or setting, I’m always asked the same question: how have I balanced being a mother of nine with a big City career? Looking back, especially over those years when my children were very young, it’s hard to fathom it myself – but certain things have helped, both...
Why I wish I’d saved more for my children
Thursday 20 Jun 2024Big milestones in our lives usually coincide with big personal finance decisions, or at least give us a nasty reminder that we should have been considering our financial futures when it would have made a difference to the here and now. Hindsight, as they say, is a wonderful thing. I had my first...