Iona Bain is an award-winning writer, author, speaker and broadcaster who specialises in personal finance. She came to prominence as the founder of Young Money Blog, the first blog in the UK devoted to young people’s finances.
Young Money was founded in 2011 and went onto become one of the most pioneering and influential personal finance blogs in the UK. Iona retired from active blogging in 2021 to concentrate on other exciting projects but you can find out more about what Young Money has achieved below, and the wealth of knowledge Iona built up around young people’s finances over 10 years.
Today’s news about rocketing gas prices and energy providers potentially going bust is kinda scary, right? Let me explain what’s happening, how it will affect
It’s Budget week! So, by popular demand, the Own It! podcast is bringing you a Budget special to explain what the Chancellor’s big day means
It’s Budget Day, with chancellor Rishi Sunak announcing his three point plan earlier to support businesses through the remainder of the pandemic, “fix” the public
This week, young investors in the US have given Wall Street a bloody nose in the biggest financial upset of modern times. They have combined
Today, we had the news from the Office for National Statistics that 25-34 year olds are at the biggest risk of losing their jobs with
Last night, I could have watched the latest ‘must-see’ programmes on Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Britbox or NOW TV (yes, I have subscriptions to all four
One or two of you may have spotted this over the weekend in the press radio previews: I’m really pleased to confirm I’ll be joining
So I was invited on the BBC’s GrownupLand podcast recently to talk about young people + money… We ended up having a really interesting natter
Late last year, I wrote about why it was good to have “FOBO” – that’s the fear of better options – when it comes to
This week Iona Bain, founder of the Young Money blog, joins the podcast to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on women’s and young people’s finances.
The Self-employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is now up and running to tide over young freelancers during lockdown – much earlier than expected. Iona digs
Inflation – that’s the rate of price rises in the economy – tumbled to 0.8% in April, its lowest level in three years, thanks to
We’re all in this together. Or are we? It’s hard not to notice that, although the virus itself may target the older population, its effects
This should have been a golden opportunity for the Chancellor to ‘level up’ the country, not just geographically but demographically too. But the frightening potential
Ahhhhhhhhhhh…FREAK OUT! Last week was a scary week for investors – especially young people who are relatively new to wild drops in the stockmarket. So
The government is tinkering with the housing market. Again! Desperate to come up with initiatives to help new buyers in more expensive areas, it plans
A decision to cut the base rate tomorrow would only harm younger people, explains Ros Altmann in her debut for the Young Money Blog Apparently
However you feel about Thursday’s result and Boris Johnson’s electoral victory, we must accept the age of Bojo and understand how it might shape our
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ LIAM HALLIGAN Home Truths is a must-read for all young people who are alienated from our housing system and baffled as to why they
Financial education has been on the curriculum since 2014 in England. But is it really working? It’s been five years since the (notional) introduction of
Can better financial products help young people get a fairer deal in today’s economy? The so-called inter-generational divide is now on the radar of the
The phoney war is back! The media have been dutifully reporting on the House of Lords Committee on Intergenerational Fairness. One guess as to what
Iona Bain Do the financial regulators actually protect us when things go wrong? It’s a fair question, after MPs called on the government to intervene
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