Sarah Coles is a Finance Expert at Yahoo Finance. She specializes in personal finance topics, including credit health, debt management, retirement planning, saving and investing, as well as the housing market and residential real estate. Sarah's insights and analysis have been featured in numerous outlets, including Yahoo Finance France, Hargreaves Lansdown, and The i Paper.
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Sarah Coles focuses mainly on personal finance, with an emphasis on taxes, savings, investments and the gender pay gap. She frequently cites data and provides how-to guides in her articles. If you have expertise in any of these areas and can provide actionable advice or analysis backed by credible data, Sarah may be interested in your insights.
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By: Sarah Coles
New Year’s Resolutions are designed to make you feel bad about yourself. You make a big list of all the things you’ve failed to achieve. Then you put yourself under pressure to get them sorted immediately. Finally, you get to feel awful on a daily basis until you’ve failed on all fronts. But there is a better option.
By: Sarah Coles
Free up the money first Drawing up a budget is boring, and it may not feel like you're achieving anything, but, like digging the foundations of a building, if you want to build something robust you can't skip this step.
But what may have seemed like a cunning money-management ploy in December often looks much less promising when you're facing a debt hangover in January.
Take the guesswork out of your financial plans and find out what will be shaping your finances in 2026.
By: Sarah Coles
I think I know how older children feel when their parents offer money advice. It’s roughly how I feel if I get trapped in a conversation with someone who thinks I’d love football if only I knew more about it.
By: Sarah Coles
I had a brilliant plan. My son left school last year, so the idea was for him to go to Australia for a year, find work, live independently, and get some life experience under his belt. He would then return, ready for adult life. Like all the most cunning plans, it immediately went wrong.
Dividend tax increases have had a significant impact on investors over the past few years, with pensioners and average earners hit particularly hard. In the coming year this is likely to intensify thanks to the latest dividend tax hike.
By: Sarah Coles
Watching the international news is so shocking at the moment that you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d accidentally sat on the remote control and were watching a dystopian drama instead.
The consumer price index was up by 3.3% year-on-year in March, compared to 3% in February, as the UK begins to see the effects of the US-Iran war in prices.
By: Sarah Coles
Last week my son was attacked by a stingray. Regular readers will know he’s recovering from glandular fever on the other side of the world.
