Property or pension — which is best?
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Your 2-minute guide to demystifying money and making you richer
The markets, year-to-date
S&P 500: 5,459.10 ⬆️ 15.10%
FTSE 100: 8,285.71 ⬆️ 7.31%
Bitcoin: $568,708.20 ⬆️ 55.43%
GBP to USD: $1.2879 ⬆️ 1.20%
GBP to EUR: €1.1860 ⬆️ 2.85%
As of market close on Friday
Property or pension?
Every week, The Sunday Times’ “Fame and Fortune” column interviews a celebrity (or often a person who, ahem, used to be a celebrity) about their personal finances. The conceit of the column is that we might learn about saving and investing from someone who came second on Dancing on Ice.
Celebrities, of course, are not financial experts. Often they are the opposite. The Bay City Rollers, for instance, were probably the most successful band in Britain in the 1970s — but by 1979 they were bankrupt.
And the column is self-selecting: No celeb is going to admit that after the screaming stopped they ended up on Universal Credit.
The column usually asks the star whe…