Martin Lewis has launched a new, free, online course to train people in the art of "financial self-defence". To do it, the MoneySavingExpert.com founder teamed up with Open University to give people the change to brush up on essential financial skills to help them get better at spending, budgeting, saving and preparing for retirement. "Companies continually spend billions of pounds on advertising, marketing and teaching their staff to sell," Martin said. "Yet consumers don't get any training.
We need to redress that balance. We fought hard to get financial education on the curriculum, but these important lessons can't just stop when people leave school." He added: "Education is a form of financial self-defence, and so we're delighted to
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