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£5 Cashback When You Open An ING Direct Account
The ING Direct Savings Account offers everyone the high rate of 5.0% AER with no catches or penalties and you can start with just £1. http://www.ingdirect.co.uk/ Rpoints are now offering £5 cashback when you open an ING savings account online and make a deposit. Full details of the Rpoints offer can be seen in the…
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What is Paypal and how safe is it?
Have come across numerous references to Paypal accounts as online payment and receipt mechanisms, but have read a lot about safety concerns surrounding these accounts. What exactly are these accounts, is it true that it is owned by e-bay, and how safe are they for use? Plan to open one for payments coming through from…
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Index Tracker
Can anyone recommend a good Index Tracker? I want to put in about £50 a month initially, and want to wrap the tracker in an ISA. If anyone can help me out, either with recommendations or warnings(!), I'll be grateful. Thanks Jim
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HBOS Sharesave
I would greatly appreciate any views on this as I have to decide what to do within the next week.. I have saved for 3 years (£,9,000 in total) into the HBOS staff Sharesave scheme and have an option to buy about 1,700 shares at £5.62. My dilemma is do I sell all now and take the profit (current share price is £8.62) of…
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Investment Views - Consolidation
Me dear old ma has got a few shares here and there mainly from ye ole privitisation days. I have been saying that I would look at her portfolio and look to consolidate the number / quality of her holdings. So, to that end I would welcome peoples views on some of her holdings (some I know are worth retaining) but below are…
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AXA Cashbuilder Plus
Right - this is the year I get sorted! I opened one of these Axa cashbuilder 'drip-feed' accounts in 1998 or 1999 when i knew very little about high rate savings, ISA's etc. I started off paying £10pm for 1st year, £12pm for second etc and have just started on the £20pm for the next 10 years. I cant find any literature…
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Saving For Kids
Hi I am currently in a bit of a quadry my childs National Savings Bond has matured she now has the option of letting it roll over for further 5 years from £286.08 to £375.76 or going elsewhere with her cash, I have thought of going to the A&L currently offering 5.25% for a 1st savers account? Which of these accounts would…
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Great easy way 2 donate £1.50 for the tsunami fund
please follow this thread and find an easy way to donate £1.50 to the official tsunami fund :) :):) http://forum.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Free;action=display;num=1104943049;start=0
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My Investment Trust picks for 2005 and beyond....
This are the investment trusts I am picking not only for 2005, but also for the longer term 1. BRITISH EMPIRE SEC & GENERAL TRUST - A UK companies growth trust - This has been performign quite well for a number of years and delivers stable consistent growth, I expect it to continue to outperform the market, and class this…
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Female super savers
Wondered if any of you guys can help? Interested to hear from women in 20s/early 30s who have been especially canny with their finances and managed build up a nest egg of savings. Maybe you put your own money saving or making ideas to use and it paid off? Or started squirrelling away funds from a young age? Or do you play…
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Making the most of my Savings
OK how do I invest £25,000 for 1 year and earn the best possible interest. I currently hold this amount in my Cahoot savings account and would like to earn as much as possible safely for 12 or 18 months, I dont want to risk any of my initial investment but would be prepared to leave the cash untouched for this period,…
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Fax ink films
The Phillips Magic2 and I daresay all their other fax machines will only take Phillips own ink film rolls. These are naturally the most expensive. They have according to their tech help desk installed a "little" software programme which prevents the use of any other [cheaper] compatibles. In fact, having received 50…
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Long Term Savings
I currently have a Cahoot Savings Account paying 5.65% however this will drop thier standard rate in June when my 1Yr introductory rate finishes. With interest rates predicted to fall this year should I start looking at a Fixed Rate 1-2 year savings account ? I also came across Halifax's 5.7% fixed ISA. Where you can…
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Someone to work out my maths please
I have £500 sitting in the Halifax high interest saving account. I havent a clue how to work out compound interest so can someone tell me how much I will be gaining in interest in a month please?
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Investment Plan
Hi, As a new year resolution I've decided to try and get a little braver about how I save my money. Until now I have just been sticking a few £100 here and there into a cash ISA and have managed to save approx. £2k each year for the last couple of years. I'm probably going to cash in £5k of ISA to make a payment on my…
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Saving for god children
My wife would like to start a savings account for her 2 god children. Is there a way to do this as they are not family and she does not want tax deducted. I hope this is a sensible enquiry. Thanks for any help. ::)
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Earning some extra cash
Hi - apologies, not necessarily posted in the correct forum, but this is towards augmenting my savings, so in a contrived way, this is related to Savings ;) Am looking at making some extra cash (around £300 a month) - any thoughts on this - any ideas if these 'click and register and make free cash' sites any good? If so,…
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Any ING experts ? help needed new year new p
Hi everyone, I have an ING savings account that I setup with a debit card, and have a bit of money in it but I have to transfer money in manually. Can I add a Halifax current account (my wages are paid into this) so that I can setup a monthly savings that transfer say £100 automatically each month ? I have looked on the…
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Charity Bank
Any views on the Charity Bank CITR scheme accounts for 5 years. Looks a great interest rate.
