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311. Wise up this Christmas
November 05, 2009
With November just around the corner and the daylight hours dwindling, the Christmas season is drawing closer and closer. The event evokes images of families swapping presents and pleasantries, great turkey dinners and crowding round the television to watch the Queen’s speech.
However, the m...
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312. Fix it for best bonds
October 26, 2009
The historically low base rate of interest has not been particularly kind to savers in the UK, with the measure falling from five per cent to 0.5 per cent in just 12 months. Those hoping the situation will improve are unlikely to have taken much comfort from the Centre for Economics and Business Res...
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313. A stirring mortgage market
October 22, 2009
It is a subject which splits opinion on a daily, weekly and monthly basis – the housing market. The sector is pored over in minute detail, with many lenders, bodies and other organisations publishing figures at the end of each month, detailing average house prices, annual changes, monthly changes, r...
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314. Back to banking basics?
October 22, 2009
Much of the analysis during the fallout of the financial crisis has focused on how the events since the autumn of 2007 have affected multi-national organisations and governments around the world. However, normal families have also been hurt by the downturn, with many hard working individuals finding...
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315. The ISA world is your oyster
October 22, 2009
As those over 50 try to work out how best to make use of the extra ISA allowance that has now come their way, those of us with a bit more youth on our side still have to wait until next April for the new limits to come into play.
Having come into effect from 6 October for anyone born on or...
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316. Using your child trust fund: easy as learning your ABC
October 16, 2009
Like the kids who’ll be the first to benefit from them, the Child Trust Fund has done a lot of growing up in the four and a half years since it was launched.
Introduced in January 2005, the accounts are designed to ensure every child has some savings behind them when they turn 18.
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317. The choice is yours
September 24, 2009
Personal finance has become part of the national psyche since the beginning of the economic downturn, with consumers up and down the land pondering the best home for their money.
On the face of it, savers have had a torrid time of it since the crash started as the curtain came down on the s...
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318. A heady fix
September 24, 2009
To fix or not to fix? It is a question that many potential homeowners have no doubt pondered recently. The ship which sees many borrowers paying next to no interest on their repayments has long sailed, but with predictions of the base rate not reaching former levels for many years to come, there is ...
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319. Boost for buy-to-let prospects
September 24, 2009
While banks and building societies cautiously begin to make more mortgages available to the residential market, the buy-to-let sector remains a shadow of its former self. Latest figures suggest that since reaching its peak in September 2007, the number of buy-to-let mortgages available to existing ...
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320. A transfer worth thinking about
September 24, 2009
As a nation that likes a credit card or ten, it is a safe bet that many Britons choose to pay just the minimum repayment necessary each month, barely making a dent in the figure they owe.
Granted, this approach will work for some, especially those who have fallen into the trap of building up...
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