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Apr 2022
26m 21s

Should I spend, save or invest my bonus?

Financial Times
About this episode

Record inflation! Soaring energy prices! Tax rises! Those are the gloomy economic and financial headlines, but three-quarters of the readers who answered an FT poll said they expected their bonus to be bigger, or substantially bigger, than last year’s.  


If you’re lucky enough to be one of those people, this episode is for you, because the squeeze on living standards and turbulent world markets mean it’s even more important to use your bonus wisely.


Claer is joined in the FT studio by three experts, FT columnist and former investment banker James Max, Nimesh Shah, chief executive of tax specialists Blick Rothenberg, and Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Landsdown. The three of them give their views on the comments from the FT readers who bravely bared their financial souls to tell us whether they intended to spend, save or invest their bonus.


If you would like to be a future guest on Money Clinic podcast, please email the team via money@ft.com or follow Claer on social media @Claerb. 

Read the results of Claer’s bonus season survey here: https://www.ft.com/content/4deb9688-5c35-4d4b-a364-a43e0d000995


James Max on how to get a bigger bonus: https://www.ft.com/content/aacbd190-535c-47dc-8046-b9ea31415aca


Want advice getting a pay rise? Listen to this episode of Money Clinic: https://www.ft.com/content/eeb84e5e-acf2-4b92-a99a-bd3514e1837d


Presented by Claer Barrett. Produced by Persis Love. Our executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design is by Breen Turner, with original music from Metaphor Music.




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