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Acknowledgements

Week 1 Text:

13. Extract: Adapted from Callaghan, G., Fribbance, I. and Higginson, M. (eds) pp 109-10 (2012) Personal Finance (2nd edn), Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Week 1 Figures:

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Week 1 Audio Visual

Videos:

Video 1: Introduction to Session 1 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, Professor of Organisational Psychology at The Open University Business School, speaking at the launch of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance on 14 November 2013 © The Open University

Video 3: A decision-making model: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Audios:

Audio 1: The modern way to shop: ©The Open University

This free course was written by Martin Upton in collaboration with Money Saving Expert. It was first published in May 2020.

Week 2 Figures

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Week 2 Audio Visual

Videos:

Video 1: Introduction to Session 2 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: Budgeting and taxation animation: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Week 3 Figures:

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Activity 2: © Case studies 1-4 © The Open University

Week 3 Audio Visual

Video 1: Introduction to Session 3 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: Andy Haldane (Chief Economist of Bank of England) talking to Martin Upton: ©The Open University

Audios:

Audio 1: Who are the lenders ©The Open University

Week 4 Figures:

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Figure 8: ©Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) (2017b) ‘Mortgage arears fell in third quarter’ https://www.cml.org.uk/ news/ press-releases/ mortgage-arrears-fell-in-third-quarter/

Figure 9: adapted from: ©Nationwide Building Society (2019) ‘UK House Prices Adjusted for Inflation’ Available at https://www.nationwide.co.uk/ about/ house-price-index/

Week 4 Audio Visual

Videos:

Video 1: Introduction to Session 4 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: Understanding Mortgages animation: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Audio:

Audio 1: Mortgage choices: ©The Open University

Week 5 Tables:

Tables 1 and 2: adapted from: OECD (2020) ‘Household savings (indicator)’. doi: 10.1787/cfc6f499 en’ https://data.oecd.org/ hha/ household-savings.htm

Week 5 Figures

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Figure 14: adapted from https://goldprice.org/ gold-price-chart.html

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Figure 16: Slideshow: Investment companies: Slide 1: https://www.allianz.co.uk/; Slide 2: https://www.bnymellon.com ; Slide 3: https://www.hl.co.uk/ ; Slide 4: https://www.fidelity.co.uk/ ; Slides: 5: https://www.avivainvestors.com/ en-gb/

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Figure 18: Slideshow: Peer to Peer lending companies:

Slide 1: https://www.zopa.com/;

Slide 2: https://www.lendit.com/ usa/ 2020 ;

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Week 5 Videos:

Video 1: Introduction to Session 5 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: the difference between savings and investments animation: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Week 6 Figures:

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Figure 4: the OU graph

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Week 6 Videos:

Video 1: Introduction to Session 6 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: Understanding pension schemes animation: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 3: Summary of Section 6 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

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