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Best High Street For 6 Month Lump Sum Investment
I have £100k to invest but I will need access to it in about 6 months time, The stockbroker I went to today,said the high street banks/building societies were my best bet but which one?. ie Safe as poss but max return any ideas???????
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Website with index constituents
Can anybody guide me to some good website giving details of market capitalisation etc of the FTSE 100 constituents, FTSE 250 constituents, etc? What I am looking for is index constituents with share price, no of shares issued and subscribed, market capitalisation and index weightage at a glance.
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Savings Accounts for Children
Hi How many accounts can I open for my daughter. As both grannies went to open an account along with us, is it just the parents or anyone along as they have a copy of birth cert? Would they all be tax free? Thanks
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Closing A&L account - interest?
Hi all, i have left this a little late, but i am about to close the A&L account i opened for my daughter! Aa the interest dropped as you are all probably aware of! How do i get the interest on what i have saved already? should i close the account to get the interest or do i have to request it from them first? Also what did…
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ICICI Applicants feedback required
Hi I'd love to know your feedback on the process of applying for ICICI and have you got your accounts up and running. Please let me know also please vote in the poll martin
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ING - Injustice?
Can anybody explain why ING offer Spanish investors 6% and UK only 5% reducing to 4.75% on 1 Aug. ( I think its more in OZ so clearly market forces prevail) I guess the next related question is it possible to open up a foreign account with ING?
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wedding savings
i'm getting married in june next year (hurrah), and desperately need to start saving as we're paying for it ourselves. we have huge families (150 people total) and lots of friends we want to invite. anyway, i have the 5.65% rate from cahoot, which is holding at that rate. however, we get married before the next time i get…
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A & L premier account silly requirement
Hi All, I just tried applying for the A&L premier account. To get the free cash and have a good current account of course. Only to have my application rejected. The reason given for the rejection was that I haven't been on the electoral roll at my current address for 5 years. Now when I signed up they where going to give…
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Dormant accounts - Brown's raid
The Chancellor is looking to have savings accounts closed after three years if there is no activity on the account. This will cause endless headaches, mistakes and red tape; it will translate into extra costs at the expense of savers. The Building Societies Association is against it. Public opinion thinks it is ridiculous…
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Lotto Winner
Someone out there has £18,268,465 to invest. It's fantasy savings time...
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less INCOME - more GAIN
Can anyone help? We live on a low income boosted by tax credits (for three children). We have no mortgage or other debts and don't really need any more money. (sorry folks - I know how this sounds...) My mother owns some commercial property - some of which is empty and she's trying to sell - and that with her own bungalow…
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Premium bonds as savings
Hi I am selling my flat and I will have around 20k equity on my hands. I intend to use this as a deposit for a new property within the next 2 years. At the moment buying is not an option as my partner, who i will buy with, needs to get his credit rating ok (we will use some of the equity over and above the 20k to clear his…
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ISA switch charges - Saver triumphs
The Mail on Sunday reports that a saver was repaid the £25 for switching his ISA to another provider as A&L settled out of court. The man involved revealed the action on Thursday at the AGM of the Financial Services Authority. A&L has since scrapped the £25 charge :) . The FSA's Callum McCarthy, while not commenteng…
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National Savings Rates drop
NSI rates have dropped by up to 0.5% for five year certificates. That's usually a good indicator of medium term interest rates. Savers should gird their loins. Borrowers might not be so glum.
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Best Instant Access Internet Account
Following the recent interest rate drop with ING etc, which is the internet account paying the highest rate with instant acess?
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Halifax kids Regular Saver fiasco
Please tell me I am not the only person suffering at the hands of these muppets. I opened two of these accounts and the linked save4it accounts for my two kids a couple of months or so ago, on the internet. A few days later I took full ID both for myself and the kids into a local Halifax branch, where it was logged and…
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Pearl Assurance Saver Plan
9 years ago my daughter took out a Pearl Assurance Saver Plan in her own name to make provision for her (then 2 year old) daughter should anything happen to her - her husband had just left her in the lurch. She now tells me that there have been no bonuses for the past two years. She has paid in approx £3700 to date and…
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Missing money from Cahoot
I hope someone can help. I transferred £400 from my cahoot savings account to my halifax current account last Friday to change to Euros for my holiday on Sunday. It should have been transferred yesterday, but there was no sign of it. Have checked both accounts today and although my cahoot account has been debited, halifax…
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Spam PM?
Not Happy. Had a pm from goto512 : "Hello, I am new here. Just wondering what some more experienced people think about high yield investing programs. They are discussed at: ***links removed - MSE Controller2*** Are these legit and have you ever invested into them?" Joined July 2005, post count 0, Banned.
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wanted high street savings
I would like a non internet high street saving with a good interest rate. Instant access with no penaltys. Thanks
