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  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    Covid shows that ageing is like a disease — we should treat it accordingly

    Scientists are working on a new generation of therapies which could prolong years of healthy life

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Next Act
    How Covid-19 rebooted retirement

    Pandemic has prompted the over-50s to reassess their financial priorities

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    UK immigration
    Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK

    Up to 1.3m may have left in past 12 months, according to research that questions official data

  • Sunday, 3 January, 2021
    South Korea Society
    South Korea population falls for first time

    Data highlight demographic challenges as country faces healthcare, labour and pension strains

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    Italy
    The mafia turns social media influencer to reinforce its brand

    Southern Italy’s mob bosses embrace digital platforms as a way to spread their message

  • Saturday, 26 December, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK doctors flag mental pressures pandemic puts on young people

    Coronavirus has mostly spared teenagers physically but it is taking an alarming toll on their mental health

  • Sunday, 20 December, 2020
    Rana Foroohar
    A student debt jubilee could kickstart US economic recovery

    Loan forgiveness must be carefully targeted and accompanied by broader reforms

  • Saturday, 19 December, 2020
    Pension automatic enrolment
    US urged to adopt auto-enrolment to address pensions crisis

    National retirement savings scheme could save millions of workers from poverty in old age, says study

  • Saturday, 19 December, 2020
    LexAgeing Populations
    Demographics: the army of the old Premium

    Later retirement has investment implications, including putting more money in the vaunted silver purse

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    Special ReportThe World Ahead
    Life in 2025: what will the future look like?

    From finance and tech to work, consumer trends and energy, FT and Nikkei journalists imagine the world in five years’ time

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    A statistical history of Britain fit for the census year

    Boris Starling scours the ONS in order to retell the story of the nation in data

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    UK employment
    Pandemic leaves over-50s with uncertain job prospects

    Young people were hard hit by the crisis but older workers will struggle with long-term unemployment

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Special ReportMoral Money: Next Generation
    Next generation behind family offices’ ESG push

    Transfer of wealth will place trillions of dollars under the control of millennials in the coming decades

  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    Leo Lewis
    From Tokyo to Beijing, growing old is hard to do

    The economy-sapping shadow cast by Japan’s demographic decline holds sombre lessons for China

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Why economics needs to wake up to ageing populations

    Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan forecast a future of secular stagflation in The Great Demographic Reversal

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Markets InsightMichelle Seitz
    Time for US to address savings crisis for workers

    Ravages of the pandemic means shift is needed to boost financial resilience

  • Sunday, 29 November, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Japan’s lesson on ageing gracefully

    Country shows that rising living standards can accompany a shrinking population

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Lessons from Japan
    Japanese youth search for stability in a world without growth

    Lessons from Japan: Why the generation that grew up in stagnation will not take risks

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The crisis within Britain’s care system

    Madeleine Bunting’s timely tour de force exposes a society in which care has been devalued

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
    Millennials
    Further reading

    GCHQ; the vaccine dilemma; Spotify and much more . . . 

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    Janan Ganesh
    Sex and the cities

    Urban life will thrive as long as people marry late and divorce often

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    News in-depthItalian economy
    ‘There is no money left’: southern Italy’s poor pummelled by Covid

    Pandemic’s economic impact is ‘a catastrophe’ for people already in precarious situation

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    The Wealth ManPersonal Finance Advice & Comment
    Are you a good financial role model?

    Purpose, meaning and joy can come from passing on wealth, in a way that makes a difference to others

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    FT MagazineElaine Moore
    How social media is opening a new generation gap

    Gen Z disapproves of millennials sharing private data, using emojis and even having email addresses

  • Sunday, 8 November, 2020
    Arts
    Small Screen: Big Debate — the winner of the FT/Ofcom competition

    Students shared their thoughts on the future of broadcasting and Janelle Oje’s winning blog post is published here

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