Lily Russell-Jones
Money Reporter at The Times
Money Reporter at The Sunday Times
Former senior reporter @thetimes & @thesundaytimes | Sometimes on @timesradio | professional question asker (she/her)
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Sep 7, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Samuel Pepys |Lily Russell-Jones |Byron banked
It’s a sunny Monday afternoon and I’m sitting inside one of the world’s most exclusive private banks. In a cosy meeting room with steel-blue walls four plush red chairs are arranged around a wooden table. Diana Brightmore-Armour, the chief executive of C Hoare & Co, is opposite me. “Private banking is here to stay and there’s real demand for it,” she says. “That’s partly because high net worth individuals are continuing to be asset rich and time poor.
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Aug 24, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Lily Russell-Jones
Less than 1 per cent of students at some universities who took out tuition fee loans have paid them back in full, new figures reveal. The numbers, released under the Freedom of Information Act, expose the gulf between higher and lower ranking institutions and how quickly students clear their debts. The Sunday Times asked the Department for Education (DfE) how many students from England had paid back their fee loans in full at 130 of Britain’s top universities.
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Aug 10, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Lily Russell-Jones
Frances Kerr spent six months fighting for about £2,400 a year to be added to her state pension. Kerr, 66, started getting the new state pension in December and gets the full amount of £221.20 a week. But because her husband died in 2011 aged 72, she knew she might be entitled to inherit part of his state pension too. “My mum started got some extra money after my dad died and my sister did after her husband died, so I thought I might be entitled to something extra too,” Kerr said.
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Aug 10, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Lily Russell-Jones
You could be £1 million better off at retirement if you pick the right company to work for, a Money investigation has shown. The Sunday Times contacted every firm in the FTSE 100, the index of the biggest companies listed on the UK stock market, and compared the pension schemes for UK-based staff.
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Aug 3, 2024 |
thetimes.com | Lily Russell-Jones
A row over changes to the Boots company pension scheme could end up in the High Court. The trustee company that manages the scheme has denied accusations of making changes, which could affect thousands of members, in “secret”. Members have complained that they will get a reduced amount if they take their pension before the age of 65. They claim they were told that they could take it in full from age 60. Phillipa McNamara, a former pharmacist, worked at Boots for 33 years.
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