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Claer Barrett

Consumer Editor

Claer Barrett is the consumer editor. She writes the weekly Serious Money column and presents the FT's Money Clinic podcast and Business Clinic video series. Claer frequently appears as a commentator on radio and TV, talking about personal finance, consumer and small business issues, and she is a regular guest on Eddie Mair's Drive show on LBC Radio.

You can sign up for her six-week newsletter series, "Sort your financial life out with Claer Barrett" here.

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  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Black Friday
    I’ve had my fill of Black Friday bargains

    Will incessant discounts entice online shoppers to splurge — or simply unsubscribe?

    A shopper passes a store advertising a Black Friday Sale on Regent Street in London
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Financial literacy
    What Generation Alpha wants to learn about money

    A sense of the challenges ahead mean primary and secondary schoolchildren are eager for financial literacy

    Michelle Sheridan with 10-year-old son Sawyer at the GoHenry round table event
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    UK crime
    Sainsbury’s shoppers warned to watch out for Nectar points scam

    Fraudsters target customers who have built up a high points balance ahead of Christmas

    A Sainsbury’s customer uses a self checkout till
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyInheritance
    Do I need inheritance tax insurance?

    Budget changes prompt wave of interest in life cover to avoid families scrambling to pay tax bills

    Illustration of a hand gripping an hourglass with money falling out the bottom
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Could TikTok, apps and Gemma Collins boost women’s pensions?

    Scottish Widows study shows more than 2mn UK women will not be able to afford to retire

    Reality TV and social media star Gemma Collins is fronting the Pay Your Pension Some Attention campaign
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Working It21 min listen
    What I wish I’d known when I started my career

    Isabel and colleagues share workplace advice they wish they’d known earlier

  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyInsight & Comment
    Will women be the big losers from Rachel Reeves’ first Budget?

    National insurance increases will push up the cost of childcare and hit lower-paid part-time jobs

    Illustration of a woman using her laptop whilst holding a child, and with another child alongside
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyDemographics and population
    Meet ‘Generation Windfall’: coming to an estate agent near you

    Fears of tax rises at the Budget have sent the Bank of Mum and Dad into overdrive

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Parents to be hit by ‘nanny tax’ after national insurance changes

    Families affected will be worse off by more than £1,000 a year

    A nanny reads a story to two young children
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Claer Barrett’s Budget debrief

    The FT’s consumer guru offers her round-up of the eight best Budget stories to help you make sense of it all

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Working people will pay the price of higher taxes for employers

    Increasing the burden on companies may not affect workers’ payslips today, but it won’t be long

    Commuters make their way across Waterloo Bridge in London
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Serious MoneyFintech
    What ‘Monzo millionaires’ can teach us about share options

    If you’re offered options as part of your pay package, what questions should you ask?

    Illustration of a bank card, cash and chart lines
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Serious MoneyInsight & Comment
    The sun is setting on traditional retirement

    Demographic changes force a rethink, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

    Illustration of young and old workers as chess pieces on a chess board
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves looking at sweeping inheritance tax changes in Budget

    UK chancellor considers extending ‘seven year rule’ on gift giving to 10 years among other reforms

    Rachel Reeves
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Serious MoneyWorkplace pensions
    Time to hit the pensions panic button

    Possible Budget changes would widen the gulf between public and private sector pension schemes

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Are you protected by the UK’s new fraud rules?

    As the focus shifts from blaming customers to shutting down scammers, most victims will receive automatic refunds. But is it enough?

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    UK banks
    UK banks divided over charging scam victims £100 for reimbursement

    New fraud rules will see some lenders dock customers’ compensation while others waive charges

    Exterior of TSB branch
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Should London’s tax exiles head for Spain, Italy . . .  or Wales?

    Recent headlines have prompted remote workers to ask ‘what’s the Welsh for tax break?’

    Beddgelert, Wales
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyInvesting in funds
    How to make better financial decisions

    Head, heart and network are all important when deciding what to do with our money

    illustration of a woman walking on a pound sign among the clouds that had two arrows leading from it
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast29 min listen
    Can Stuart Kirk double his money in eight years?

    Investment pundit Stuart Kirk shares his master plan for building wealth

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyUK tax
    And the Budget changes most feared by FT readers are . . . 

    Attendees of the FT Weekend Festival are selling assets and passing on inheritances ahead of October’s Budget

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Parenting and families
    UK among the most expensive countries to bring up twins

    Parents having two babies at once face financial hit of at least £20,000 in additional costs, according to Twins Trust report

  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyPersonal Finance
    The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

    Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    InterviewPersonal Finance
    Dan Neidle: ‘A UK wealth tax wouldn’t work’

    Respected tax lawyer urges Labour government to consider how tax raises could stunt economic growth

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press conference at the Treasury in central London
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Gender pay gap
    Half of women ‘expect to run out of money in retirement’

    Gender gap persists as one in 10 women say they are cutting pension contributions to fund essential expenses

    Woman taking British bank notes from her wallet
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