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.
Monzo has been right at the vanguard of mobile-only banking and part of a new broom sweeping through the financial industry in recent years. So Young Money readers may be…
Iona Bain This week, Facebook got its own “Times Up” moment. Amid accusations that the social media giant had allowed the data of 150 million users to be surreptitiously exploited…
Iona was also Vanessa Feltz’s guest on today’s Papers Review on BBC Radio London, prompting one of the BBC's highest-paid stars to comment that she had been an "impressive guest"…
Two years on from Young Money Blog’s series of reports from Greece on the country’s ongoing economic crisis, we find out if life is any better - and whether Brexit…
Here on the Young Money Blog, we're NOT an echo chamber. We don't necessarily want to perpetuate the views we think will gain popularity. We believe in the importance of disseminating…
The general election is less than 7 weeks away and we have an unexpected but brilliant chance to discuss what would make Britain a more egalitarian, open and prosperous place for its young folk.…
Iona Bain We're all holding out for a hero, ala Bonnie Tyler. And that hero actually takes the unlikely form of our softly spoken governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney (who…
Iona Bain Recent shock events on both sides of the Atlantic have not so far produced the market downturn that many commentators had feared. Now the consequences of Brexit and Donald…
Have major shocks, like the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's presidential victory last year, caused us all to batten down the hatches and take an unduly fearful approach to the future? That's…
Iona Bain You may have seen me chatting on BBC Breakfast this morning about Budget 2017, specifically about my hopes and expectations for it - both of which are sadly very wide…
Iona Bain Relentless pressure on the pound is pushing up shopping bills for families, with inflation climbing to 1.8 per cent. Food prices are being hiked for the first time…
A leading fund manager has warned that a new economic world order means beginner investors should "manage their expectations" Iona Bain The first time "money issues" got interesting in my adult lifetime was just…
Millennials believe they'll be worse off as a result of political earthquakes such as Brexit and Donald Trump, according to the new "Young Money" report from the consultancy MRM. The…
All bets are off. Donald Trump is a black swan, an outlier of such a gigantic proportions that making predictions now has never seemed so futile. Yet old habits die…
The language of "U-turns" and "sell-outs" in public life might be deterring a generation from questioning their views, and the views of others. Could this be harming our personal and intellectual development?…
Iona Bain Don't panic. To quote Rudyard Kipling, "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs..." There are some interesting things to bear in mind…
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