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How to enjoy your retirement, and top tips for getting the best deal on your holiday money

If ever there was a word that needed to be retired it's 'retirement'. The kind of images this word conjures up is sunny beaches and no longer having to set an alarm clock, or a stressful feeling about how much longer you will need to work to afford such a lifestyle. This week author Don Ezra talks to FT Money editor Claer Barrett about how best to get to and enjoy what used to be called retirement. Next up, if you're heading off on holiday soon then listen to our top tips on how to get the best deal on your holiday money. 

 

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Students: top tips on how to budget at university

What's the best bank account for students? Who will give you an interest-free overdraft? And how can you get hold of a student railcard? Lucy Warwick-Ching, FT Money digital editor talks to three experts about how to make the most of your money as a student. Plus we hear how your credit rating as a student can affect your ability to get finance long after you've finished studying. And finally Guy Anker of Moneysavingexpert.com tells us why you shouldn't automatically pay off your student loan if you can afford it. 

 

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Jancis Robinson’s top 20 sweet and strong wines for Christmas

From Muscat to Madeira, the best — and best-value — tipples for the festive season




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Tips from the Top: Jancis Robinson’s best wine addresses in London

The FT’s wine columnist reveals her favourite clubs, cellars and bars in the capital




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The top FT stories read by the legal world in the coronavirus lockdown

Litigation battles, fear turns to lawsuits, and a data security flaw




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Ronan Farrow: ‘Reporters ultimately don’t stop’

The investigative journalist on #MeToo and the perils of taking on the powerful




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Bolsonaro vs Maia: feud at top of Brazil’s politics spills into open

Tensions escalate between president and the speaker of Congress’s lower house over response to coronavirus 




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FirstFT: Today’s top stories

Your daily news briefing




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UK’s top asset manager urges companies to take care of employees

LGIM to hold businesses to account for their stakeholder responsibilities during pandemic 




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JPMorgan tops ranking as best-performing fund house in China

UBS drops to second spot while Invesco slips to third in Z-Ben analysis of investment market




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EU’s top court reasserts primacy after German challenge

ECJ issues rare warning over EU legal order after German judges question its superiority




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Apple loses top designer Jony Ive

Apple’s chief designer Jonathan Ive is leaving after more than two decades in which his iconic designs for the Mac, iPod and iPhone turned one of Silicon Valley’s faded giants into the world’s most valuable company.  Janine Gibson discusses what this means for Apple and what Sir Jonathan will do next with Tim Bradshaw and Matthew Garrahan.


Contributors: Katie Martin, capital markets editor, Janine Gibson, special projects editor, Matt Garrahan, news editor, and Tim Bradshaw, global technology correspondent. Producer: Fiona Symon

 

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Ain’t no virus gonna stop the crypto graph-ters

When a chart can speak 1000 words. Not all of them entirely sincere.




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Top US official plays down Turkey’s prospects of securing dollar finance

Large foreign financing requirement and small reserves leave Erdogan facing cash crunch




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Could shutting exchanges stop the markets rot?

US Treasury secretary floats idea of shorter trading hours as staffing hit by virus




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The Ride of a Lifetime — life at the top of Disney

The story of Robert Iger’s career as a leader is a thoughtful tale of surviving disruption




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Angola’s state diamond group seeks global partners to become a top 3 producer

Endiama chief wants ‘radical change’ in overhaul of country’s scandal-hit gem industry




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Cover Genius tops FT ranking with insurtech platform

The Australian company was borne out of an online travel business that had a problem to solve




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Governments should backstop trade credit

As corporate insolvencies soar and firms try to hang on to their cash as long as possible, expect to hear a lot more about trade credit insurance.




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Christopher Parkes, journalist, 1944-2019

A sharp-eyed editor and foreign correspondent who turned a killing phrase




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Top Wirecard shareholder calls on board to end ‘whitewash’

Union Investment says new outside executives are needed to move the company on after special audit




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Top investor calls for dismissal of Wirecard chief Markus Braun

Deka Investment urges chairman to act quickly to end crisis of confidence in payments group after special audit




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Top US pension plans eye private credit

Move to capitalise on dislocations across market stemming from coronavirus pandemic




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Coronavirus: US fatalities slow but total tops 37,000 — as it happened

A live blog from FT.com

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Coronavirus: US death toll tops 42,000 — as it happened

Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.

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Coronavirus: US tops 1m Covid-19 cases — as it happened

Deaths in England and Wales are highest on record in mid-April while cases in the US surpass 1m

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Coronavirus: US death toll tops 60,000 — as it happened

Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth

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Coronavirus: US death toll tops 70,000 as New York fatalities top 20,000 — as it happened

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

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TechCrunch’s top 16 picks from Techstars April virtual demo days

Like other accelerators, Techstars, a network of more than 40 corporate and geographically targeted startup bootcamps, has had to bring its marquee demo day events online. Over the last two weeks of April, industry-focused accelerators working with startups building businesses around mobility technologies (broadly) and the future of the home joined programs in Abu Dhabi, […]




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TikTok tops 2 billion downloads

TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more people look for ways to keep themselves entertained amid the coronavirus pandemic. The global app and its Chinese version, called Douyin, have amassed over 2 billion downloads […]




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India’s Glance tops 100M daily active users in 21 months

Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on the lock screen of Android -powered smartphones, has amassed 100 million daily active users, it said today. The subsidiary of ad-firm InMobi Group reached the milestone in 21 months in what appears to be the shortest duration for any popular internet service to gain their […]




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I earn above £50,000 — should I stop claiming child benefit?

HMRC has sent an email saying that my tax code has changed




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Adobe celebrates Photoshop’s 30th anniversary with new desktop and mobile features

Adobe’s Photoshop celebrates its 30th birthday today. Over that time, the app has pretty much become synonymous with photo editing and there will surely be plenty of retrospectives. But to look ahead, Adobe also today announced a number of updates to both the desktop and mobile Photoshop experiences. The marquee feature here is probably the […]




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iPads become more laptop-like with the arrival of full mouse and trackpad support

Apple just dumped a bunch of hardware news online via press release. That’s just the world we live in right now. We’ll probably be seeing a whole lot of this in the coming weeks and months, as companies adjust to the new online reality. Along with a new MacBook Air and update to the Mac […]




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Apple’s Magic Keyboard Review: Laptop class typing comes to iPad Pro

Over the past two years, I’ve typed nearly every word I’ve written while traveling on the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard Folio. For more on why, you can see my iPad Pro review here. For the purposes of this look at the new Magic Keyboard, though, you should probably just know two things about the old […]




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Nvidia’s top scientist develops open-source ventilator that can be built with $400 in readily available parts

Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally has released an open-source ventilator hardware design he developed in order to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic. The mechanical ventilator design developed by Dally can be assembled quickly, using off-the-shelf parts with a total cost of around $400 — making it an accessible and affordable alternative […]




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TechCrunch Tokyo Startup Battlefield: SmartHR Takes The Top Prize

Every year, our Japanese-language sister site throws a big Disrupt-like event in Tokyo where there is, of course, a Battlefield between about 10 different startups. With north of 100 million Internet users, Japan has a considerable domestic market. While Western companies have had more success in Japan than in mainland China, the national startup scene still has tons […]




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Judgment day for VW as pensioner’s Dieselgate fight goes to top court

German group’s battle to minimise financial damage from scandal hinges on test case




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TikTok tops 2 billion downloads

TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more people look for ways to keep themselves entertained amid the coronavirus pandemic. The global app and its Chinese version, called Douyin, have amassed over 2 billion downloads […]




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Warren Buffett held the wrong stocks as the music stopped

Few investors went into this crisis with a portfolio they were entirely happy with




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‘50 cent’ gold fund tops European performance charts

Ruffer precious metal and Baillie Gifford tech vehicles shine during market turbulence




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Diet autopilot Thistle raises $5M for health food subscriptions

What if it was easier to eat salad than junk food? Most diet routines take a ton of time, whether you’re cooking from scratch, making a meal kit or seeking a nutritious restaurant. But on-demand prepared food delivery companies like Sprig that tried to eliminate that work have gone bankrupt from poor unit economics. Thistle […]




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Tesla Model 3 makes Consumer Reports ‘Top Picks’ list for 2020

Tesla’s Model 3 is among the top 10 choices for car buyers in 2020, according to Consumer Reports. The nonprofit organization released its “Top Picks” of the year on Thursday, and it included Tesla’s most affordable vehicle alongside cars from automakers including Toyota, Subaru, Honda, Kia and Lexus. The Model 3 was chosen as one […]




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European lawmakers propose a ‘right to repair’ for mobiles and laptops

The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops. More generally it wants to restrict single-use products, tackle “premature obsolescence” and ban the destruction of unsold durable goods — in order to make sustainable products the norm. The proposals […]




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TikTok tops 2 billion downloads

TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more people look for ways to keep themselves entertained amid the coronavirus pandemic. The global app and its Chinese version, called Douyin, have amassed over 2 billion downloads […]




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India’s Glance tops 100M daily active users in 21 months

Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on the lock screen of Android -powered smartphones, has amassed 100 million daily active users, it said today. The subsidiary of ad-firm InMobi Group reached the milestone in 21 months in what appears to be the shortest duration for any popular internet service to gain their […]




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Zoom will enable waiting rooms by default to stop Zoombombing

Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as trolls attack publicly shared video calls. Starting April 5th, it will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID, as these may be guessed or reused. Meanwhile, it will change virtual waiting rooms to be on by default so hosts have to manually admit […]




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Replace non-stop Zoom with remote office avatars app Pragli

Could avatars that show what co-workers are up to save work-from-home teams from constant distraction and loneliness? That’s the idea behind Pragli, the Bitmoji for the enterprise. It’s a virtual office app that makes you actually feel like you’re in the same building. Pragli uses avatars to signal whether co-workers are at their desk, away, […]




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8 top fintech VCs discuss COVID-19 trends, signals and opportunities

In recent years, fintech’s revolution has felt like a rising tide. Behemoths like Stripe and Square edged out banks while newbies like Brex nonchalantly raised nine-figure rounds. Today, however, the state of the financial technology industry feels more wobbly — some healthy startups in the genre are faring better than ever, while others are feeling […]




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Global Mine 2015: gloves come off as top 40 prepare for brawl - 5 Jun

The global mining industry's fight for value and free cash flow has descended into a brawl, after 2014 saw the world's 40 largest miners ramp up production, slash capital spending, and rein in costs.