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Making Money
Learn how to build wealth - investing, pensions, the psychology of money - even things like how to get a payrise. Hosted by the UK’s top personal finance YouTuber Damien Jordan and his best mate Timeyin Akerele, this is the financial education we wish we’d had. Our focus is on the big stuff, teachin...
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8 Million UK Workers Won’t Have Enough to Retire
Will your pension actually be enough for retirement? Or are you heading for a shortfall without realising it? Al Miles is an investment actuary who ha...
Every Tech Boom Ends the Same Way
The S&P 500 once delivered 17 years of zero real returns. Could it happen again? Jim Reid is the Global Head of Macro Research at Deutsche Bank. In a...
What Happens to Your Money if You Die Tomorrow?
More than half of adults in the UK don’t have a will. So what happens if you die without one?
Sam Grice is CEO of Octopus Legacy.
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Are You Wasting Your Life Saving Money?
Susan wrote into us: What do you think of the ‘Die with Zero’ philosophy by Bill Perkins? I know many people who work so hard that they never get to e...
Don't Wake Up to Make Rich People Richer
Timothy Armoo was twenty seven when he sold his company Fanbytes for tens of millions of pounds. He’s written the book he wish he’d had when he was st...
Your Retirement Plan Has a Fatal Flaw
What if you live longer than you expect? Can you make your money last in retirement? Marianna Hunt is a personal finance specialist at Fidelity Intern...
Retiring at 65 Makes No Sense
Is slow population growth going to change your retirement? Amlan Roy is an expert in demographics and has advised governments all over the world. He s...
What Politicians Won't Tell You About the Economy
Are you being misled about the state of the UK economy? What really went wrong? And how do we fix it? Vicky Pryce was a top economist inside the civil...
The Financial System is Rigged Against Normal People
What if personal finance wasn’t just complicated, it was actually rigged against you, Tarun Ramadorai, professor of financial economics at Imperial Co...
The 3 Investing Rules That Changed Warren Buffett’s Fortunes
Ask anyone who the world’s best investor is, chances are, they’ll say Warren Buffett. Every move he makes makes headlines. Together with Charlie Munge...
Ben Felix: Investing is Simple, So Why Is Everyone Getting it Wrong?
Ben Felix has one of the few personal finance channels I watch. Chief Investment Officer at PWL Capital, he also co-hosts the Rational Reminder podca...
Financial Adviser Explains How to Get Ahead in 2026
To kick off the year we asked for your biggest money questions, which we're answering with financial adviser and friend of the podcast, Lisa Conway-Hu...
How 2025 Changed How We Think About Money
It’s our final episode of 2025! To celebrate, we’ve brought back the hat to answer your questions. What’s been our favourite episode? Which guest comp...
ARCHIVE: I Did Everything Right...Then Lost Nearly £20,000!
Amy is a member of the Making Money audience. Many of us have made mistakes in our investing journey but not everyone is brave enough to come on and t...
Your Biggest Investment Risk Isn't The Market, It's You
Most of us just want to know one thing: what’s the best way to invest? Decades ago, William J. Bernstein had the same question, so he decided to find...
Most People Don't Understand What Money Actually Is
How To Own The World’ was probably the biggest influence on me getting into investing. Its author, Andrew Craig, has now released a new edition tailor...
How Worse Off Will You Be After the Budget?
Who are the winners and losers of the Budget? What happened to growth? Will the tax changes actually happen? We sat down with Helen Miller, Director o...
Stay Tuned...Budget Special Coming Later Today!
Sorry there's no episode for you to get stuck into yet, that's because we're recording a special budget episode with the Director for the Institute of...
Self-Employed: What You Need To Know
When is it the right time to open a limited company? How should you budget when you're self-employed? And how do you stay as tax-efficient as possible...
Can Labour Fix The UK’s Pension Crisis? Torsten Bell MP
Nearly half of working-age people are saving nothing for retirement — so what’s gone wrong, and what changes are coming? We sat down with Pensions Min...
Who Will Pay For Your Retirement?
We’re living longer, saving too little, and the state pension’s under pressure. So, can we actually afford to retire in the future? Our favourite pen...
Should You Still Invest if You Think the Market Will Crash?
The ‘AI Bubble’? The ‘Everything Bubble’?...Is the stock market actually overvalued? And what should you do about it? We’re in Manchester this week, ...
The One Change That Could Solve Inequality - Nobel Prize Winner
The free market hasn’t made us free — that’s the case Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz makes in his latest book 'The Road to Freedom'. So...
If you don't understand failure, you can't understand money
Maybe being good with money isn’t about never making mistakes — it’s about learning from them. Jessica McGawley helps ultra-wealthy parents teach thei...
Is the system designed to keep you poor?
Why aren’t we taught about money — and who benefits from keeping it that way? Abigail Foster wants to fix the UK’s financial literacy problem. A train...
Your taxes are about to go up (again)
Are tax rises on the way? With taxes already at record highs but public services still under strain, the government faces tough choices. Helen Miller,...
Are you saving enough in your pension?
Around 70% of people have no retirement plan, and most aren’t saving enough, says Joe Dabrowski, Deputy Director of Policy at Pensions UK. They are th...
Is it too late to start investing?
What happens if you start investing late? Georgie Frost was in significant debt in her 20s and had only £1,500 in her pension at 31. Now she’s Editor-...
The golden age of returns is over
Whenever you see long-term stock market averages quoted, chances are they come from Elroy Dimson’s research. Together with Mike Staunton and Paul Mars...
100th episode: This changed how we invest
It’s our 100th episode—has the podcast changed how we invest? What was our favourite episode? Who’s taller? We’re picking your questions out of a hat...
Is now a good time to invest in gold?
Is gold a good investment? It recently hit its highest price in real terms since the 1980s, but is it worth it? Ramin Nakisa is host of Pensioncraft a...
How to fix your pension before it's too late
Are you making the most of your pension? Most people aren’t — and it could be costing them thousands. Journalist Alice Guy is former Head of Pensions...
The next economic shift has just begun
Can AI boost living standards like the Industrial Revolution did—or will it be humanity’s last invention? Andrew Leigh is an economist, Australian MP...
How parents raise bad investors
Are you teaching your children the right things about money? What is the impact of poor financial education? Do children who are paid for chores fail...
Do we need to change our minds about index funds?
What happens when the market changes — and you don’t? Can sticking to your strategy be the biggest risk of all? What can we learn from investors who...
ARCHIVE: How do you fix your money issues?
Vicky Reynal is a financial psychotherapist who deals with a wide range of issues, from overspending to money secrets and self-sabotage. Her book, Mo...
What to do when you disagree about money
Do you and your partner disagree when it comes to investing? Are you a saver while they’re a spender — or is it the other way around? Does a 50/50 spl...
Is buy-to-let dead?
Is buy-to-let dead in the UK - and should it be? Rob Dix, one of the founders of Property Hub and both a landlord and tenant, breaks down how various...
Are too many people passive investing?
As you know, we’re big fans of passive investing — it’s simple, low-cost, and it works. But with passive funds now making up nearly 60% of US stock fu...
Defined Benefit (DB) pensions: What you need to know
Do you have a Defined Benefit (DB) pension but not quite sure how it works? Is there a way to retire early in a DB scheme? Is transferring out ever re...