MoneyWeek Talks

Ever wondered what your relationship with money is? Well, it could be a little more complex than you think - childhood experiences, the wrong influence, or simply not understanding how it works could be holding you back.Financial psychotherapist, Vicky Reynal, talks to Kalpana Fitzpatrick about how you can change your money mindset, avoid arguments over money and how to come out of the guilt trap when it comes to spending your money.This episode is therapy!

While tracking an index makes good sense, investors could be missing out on opportunities by overlooking active managers. Andrew Craig discusses why they still play a valuable role for investors.Plus, he talks about the key mistake most newbie investors are making when it comes to differentiating between trading and investing.

In this episode of MoneyWeek talks, Thuy-Anh Nguyen, director and product specialist at Dragon Capital, gives Andrew Van Sickle the inside track on Vietnam. Having grown up in Hanoi in the late 1970s, she has first-hand experience of the country’s extraordinary transformation from a war-torn planned economy to one of the world’s most dynamic emerging markets.By 2005, MoneyWeek was highlighting it as Asia’s other Communist dynamo. Now it is growing faster than China. Thuy-Anh tells Andrew how liberalisation triggered a growth spurt, what Vietnam did to ensure the economy maintained momentum, and how it dealt with the Donald Trump administration’s tariffs earlier this year. We also explore some of the key holdings in Dragon’s investment Trust, Vietnam Enterprise Investments Limited.

In this Autumn Budget special, MoneyWeek editors Kalpana Fitzpatrick, Andrew van Sickle and Cris Heaton chew over what was announced and what it means for savers, investors, workers, and homeowners. We gave the Autumn Budget a big thumbs down — but why?

Sir Steve Webb, former pensions minister and partner at LCP, tells MoneyWeek Talks how he is proud of the triple lock pension system, which gives the state pension a much-needed boost.Plus, he explains why young people should be able to release some of their pension savings to help them get onto the housing ladder and why renting in old age is not a good idea.Host: Kalpana Fitzpatrick, digital editor, MoneyWeek