Financial Education

  • LifestyleAOL

    Teachers earn £200k, and money comes from fairies

    A pint of milk costs £5, teachers earn more than £200,000, and money comes from fairies - or genies. These bizarre statements are actually the genuine views expressed in a study of 7-12 year-olds, when they were asked how they felt about money.

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  • BusinessAOL

    Millennials have been failed when it comes to financial education

    Financial education has quite rightly been put on the national curriculum, which means young people will be a more money savvy generation: but what about the millennials? As part of the millennial generation, I can say that no-one has ever sat

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  • BusinessAOL

    Call for simple financial products

    A range of simplified easy-to-compare financial products should be introduced to help restore consumer trust in the industry, a Treasury-commissioned review has recommended. The report said a kitemark badge should be introduced to help people

  • LifestyleAOL

    Five of the best financial voucher deals

    Savvy shoppers are used to vouchers and voucher codes saving them money on everything from shampoo or a new shirt to fine dining and theatre tickets. But there are also offers designed to help you manage your money. Here, we highlight five of the

  • NewsAOL

    Partners 'help men to save more'

    Men are more likely than women to be influenced to save more money because of the good example set by their partner, a study has found. Nearly a third (31%) of men said that their spouse is good at saving and this has encouraged them to put more

  • BusinessAOL

    Shopping tax buster app launched

    The TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) has launched a tax transparency campaign, accompanied by an app which aims to calculate the "true cost of everyday purchases". The tax buster app calculates how much money went on VAT and duties, as

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    Watch: Nationwide Protection Insurance Surgery

    Understanding more about insurance should be at the top of all our to-do lists: what kind of cover we need, why we need it and of course, do we need it? There's a great deal of misunderstanding around different types of insurance, and one

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