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  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    Golden years at work are the hidden treasure of the old

    Governments and employers are coming to recognise the value of keeping people in jobs longer

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Investments
    Gen Z embraces investing — with signs of caution

    Almost 80 per cent of investment newcomers seek financial advice

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    Parenting and families
    Will having a baby break my finances?

    Money Clinic podcast experts tackle planning ahead for parenthood

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    News in-depth
    Italian returnees seize on pandemic to stop Mezzogiorno brain drain

    Emergency crisis slows south-north migration and even encourages some southerners to go back

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    Savings
    Young people, their money and how all is not lost

    The Covid generation is waking up to the predicament they find themselves in and sensing the need to do things differently

  • Wednesday, 31 March, 2021
    Next Act
    Should you start a small business in your 50s?

    Increasing numbers of ‘olderpreneurs’ seek a second career in later life

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Sarah O'Connor
    Living longer does not mean we should all work longer

    Health inequalities mean raising the pension age could hurt low-paid workers

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    Frances Coppola
    Carers are due a living wage and pension too

    Covid has amplified the hidden cost of families looking after relatives

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Germany bucks Europe’s pandemic ‘baby bust’ with rise in births

    Other countries have logged falls in the number of children born since coronavirus hit

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    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How to handle the gamification of investing

    Regulators are fretting about the new breed of young day traders

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Merryn Somerset Webb
    Junior Isas or NFTs? Dangers lurking for the digital generation

    £9bn in child trust funds are maturing so let’s make it easier for their newly adult owners to carry on saving

  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Saving white-collar youth from burnout

    Large salaries are no longer enough to retain overworked junior employees

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    Moira O'Neill
    Young investors can only learn about risk by taking risks

    FCA warning on dangerous products must not deter savers from entering markets

  • Monday, 22 March, 2021
    Patti Waldmeir
    Employers use Covid as cover for age discrimination

    Seniors in the US are suffering an extra pandemic effect on their jobs

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Martin Sandbu
    Look to Europe’s cities for building back better Premium

    The scale of the continent’s urbanisation should be an asset for economic transformation

  • Saturday, 13 March, 2021
    LexThe Art Market
    NFTs: Beeple juices up the digital art market Premium

    Art buyers have always prized ‘provenance’ — and non-fungible tokens take that idea into the digital sphere

  • Saturday, 13 March, 2021
    Jeremy Grantham
    The severe cost of the world’s baby bust

    The chemicals that are contributing to the decline in fertility must be banned

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Jo Ellison
    Meghan, the modern workplace and the millennial dilemma

    How can businesses manage the expectations of their youthful workforces?

  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Europe’s birth rates are a casualty of lockdown

    Countries with ageing populations should be wary of fertility decline

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Pandemic blamed for falling birth rates across much of Europe

    Sharp declines in babies being born 9 months or more on from lockdowns in France, Italy and Spain

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Personal Finance
    Money mule scams target ‘Generation Covid’

    Fake online job ads used to lure 21-30-year-olds into laundering crime proceeds

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    LexCoronavirus economic impact
    Urban flight/WFH: city limits Premium

    London will most likely not shrink for long

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Emma Jacobs
    Do young people really need the office?

    It sometimes seems during the pandemic that the idea of the workplace has become invested with magical powers

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    News in-depthUK immigration
    How EU migrant exodus is reshaping communities across the UK

    Many have already left Lancashire city of Preston as Covid and Brexit hits employment

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    WeWork
    WeWork offers UK tenants greater flexibility to tempt them back

    Shared office provider is also launching new fund to support SMEs struggling in pandemic

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