Category : Couples

No-nup or no brain?

There was a piece in the Evening Standard the other day about agreements for co-habiting couples, a “no-nup” (equivalent to the “pre-nuptial” agreement of married couples).   The theory seems to be that it’s a sensible idea.  Maybe, but I … Continue reading

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Press coverage

  I got some press coverage from the interviews I did  – such as this in the Express, in AOL online and ThisisMoney.   There’s also this article on couple’s finances from November last year that I hadn’t spotted, in the Independent. … Continue reading

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Couples and finance at Christmas

    I’ve been on radio a bit lately.    I was on BBC Newcastle about people spending on their children, and on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire about the rise in buying tokens rather than spending money.  This was on … Continue reading

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Glass ceiling incentives

One of my friends pointed out an interesting coincidence of articles in the Telegraph.  One was about the glass ceiling.  The other was about the need for more women in the boardroom.  On a positive note, Lord Davis who is leading … Continue reading

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Keeping up to date

Are your wills, insurance, provision for children – up to date?  It is easy to arrange finances as a couple, then forget about what you’ve arranged.  That’s understandable.  You don’t have to be a psychologist to know that nobody wants to think … Continue reading

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Mama, we’re all guilty now.

I was asked a while ago to comment on whether changing social roles and (hopefully) greater pay equality would effect the financial relationship between men and women. Sure it will, I said, it will make everybody feel equally guilty! I … Continue reading

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