Money Box Live: Can you afford to retire?

When someone you love needs financial help, lending them money can seem like the easiest way to support them. And when you're the one facing financial difficulties, turning to someone close to you for a loan can feel like the most natural solution.Around 1 in 4 of us borrow from ...  Show more

A new survey has suggested nearly a third of people in the UK believe they lost money last year because of their poor maths skills. One estimate puts the cost of innumeracy at £25 billion per year. To try and tackle this the government has asked a House of Lords committee to inve ...  Show more

Politicians from across the political divide are suddenly very interested in pensions: using people's retirement savings to boost UK growth. Is it a good idea for the government to get involved in managing pension funds? We discuss with our Money Distilled columnist John Stepek a ...  Show more

The government's new pension pact is a British way of doing business. At least that's what one of its key architects, the City of London's Lord Mayor Nicholas Lyons, tells us. We dig into how it will work and how much he believes it will help boost growth. Also, new labour market ...  Show more

This week it’s a Pensions Special, with Blick Rothenberg CEO Nimesh Shah joined by Pensions specialist Martin Reynard.

In this episode they cover all things pensions, including over payment of tax when taking money out of pensions and what the differences are between sa ...

This episode, David Riley, Chief Investment Strategist, BlueBay Asset Management, joins Dave from London to discuss the recent financial and economic challenges in the UK, including extraordinary weakness in the pound following news of the British government’s proposed tax cuts. ...  Show more