Personal finance

Practical guides and money tips to help you through life’s moments

What’s your financial personality? Take the quiz

Ever applied a personality-led approach to your finances? Now you can, with a quiz from The Myers-Briggs Company and Marcus by Goldman Sachs.

A 30-minute money check-up

A simple 30-minute money check-up to review balances, recent spending and whether your savings set-up still matches your needs.

The pension savings gap before retirement: why pensions alone may not be enough

Explore the pension savings gap: why pensions may fall short and how other savings can help fill the gap

How to avoid “spending regrets”

Are you consumed by buyer’s remorse? Read this to help take control of your spending.

What’s the difference between interest and inflation?

Learn more about how the two are linked – and why they can both affect your savings.

What affects your credit score?

Discover the things that can make your credit score go down, or help to improve it.

Home improvement vs. moving house: weighing up your options

How to succeed at budgeting

There's no one-size-fits-all way to save – find a method that suits you.

Personal finance quiz

Try our 10 quiz questions on all things personal finance. How will you do?

Financial Rules of Thumb

What role does traditional advice play in 2022?

Money talks: Financial terms we don't have in English but you'll wish we did

These nine words and phrases, borrowed from lands near and far, help describe states of being that the English language doesn’t quite crack.

Money talks: the origin of sayings about money

“Bring home the bacon.” “Go for a song.” Find out where these seven sayings about money came from.

Picnic for a pound: inflation, purchasing power, and the CPI

What could you buy in 1982 that you can’t buy today? Learn how inflation, and purchasing power are measured by the CPI, and find out what role the Bank of England plays in controlling inflation.

Money guides

Ways to prepare financially when starting a family

What could you do as you approach retirement?

How you could help your elderly parents face their financial needs

Money tips for buying a home

Money tips for starting a career

Hoping to retire early?

Moving somewhere new

Considering a career change?