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Re: Hedging UK Government Risk
Doubtful anyone has ever seriously contemplated a Greece type economic meltdown happening here, that resulted in that country severely cutting state pensions in course of payment to its pensioners. F…1 -
Re: Tragic... Sounds real bad. Endowment mortgages :(
From his update video, it seems this is nothing to with any potential shortfall in his endowment as his mortgage still has another year to run, but from £27K or so arrears that have built up ( no exp…3 -
Re: Best stain blocker paint
Another Zinsser fan, worked brilliantly on long standing ceiling stains caused by dodgy chimney stack flashing. What I would recommend is use the cheapest / old brushes and chuck when finished as it …1 -
Re: Housing Association trying to exclude my garden
I agree with this, we bought under RTB, as I did not want to be paying rent in retirement. Our mortgage is far cheaper than the rent would be, and we would have been stupid not to have taken advantag…2 -
Re: Octopus saving sessions
kept a close eye on our live usage - at one point jumped to switch off the heater as we were topping out at 18.9kwh. We used just under 16kWh Lounge is a balmy 18.9 degrees (was 17.5 before the sessi…3 -
Re: Issues with family trust - investment
This is why the professional trustee was changed but it hasn’t helped very much!1 -
Re: The Cashback for Bank or Investment Accounts Discussion Thread
Did a quick search and couldn't see that this has been mentioned previously. Until 31 October 2026, Robinhood is offering a 5% cash bonus (in the form of a 5% match in US Dollars into their brok…5 -
Re: Replace bond fund with Gilt Ladder
I’ve done exactly that. I have a 9 year gilt ladder bought in AJ Bell using that tool to tell me how much of each to buy. I think something like a 9 year ladder generating 10k a year from April 2029 …1 -
Re: Octopus Agile
Others can benefit it's not just for agile users, if I was to use electricity now I would have to pay 21.17p you get paid 2.6p . Still I got 22.17p for 3.6 kWh worth it to me , oh and I should a…1
