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Savings & investments
Discussion List
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Please Help me Re:Stocks/Shares.......
:hello: to Everyone I really need help! My husband bought some shares via his company six years ago. Neither he nor I have any idea about shares and suchlike. When I asked why he signed up to buy them, his explanation was that everyone else bought some so he did (at this point you're thinking what I bright man I married,…
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Lost Share Certificate
Hi, I recently sold some Tesco shares using Lloyds Tsb. I was not selling all of them so they were meant to send me a balance certificate. However, this never arrived in the post. I rang them last week and they have sent me some forms to get a replacement one. However..... they are going to charge me £30 admin fee and also…
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monitoring investments and funds
I have finally made some real investments and would like some advice about how, and how often, to monitor them. Also, what am I looking for? Investments are supposed to be long term, although some people do make regular changes. I know that there will be ups and downs, but have heard conflicting opinions on whether to…
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Building societies for consistent good saving rates.
Got the annual interest on my Nationwide Building Society e-saver today. Swopped all the savings from ING Direct when they kept dropping rates. Found it very quick and convenient to get money out through Nationwide's Flexaccount - no waiting. Their VISA debit card has come in very handy abroad with commision free foreign…
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Newbie to saving, please help point us in the right direction
Hi all Right well, as per our Quidco :D we set up a first direct savings account, this is for bits of money we can afford to purt away, from Quidco & other online bits, our paypal and other bits & bats. We aticipate that we wont be saving any more than 100 a month, probably max per month 80quid. First direct have told us…
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HSBC's Flexible Saver and Instant Access Saver
Anyone know what the difference is between these two?.. apart from the obvious; the slightly different rates. From what I can see and understand the lower rates with the instant access a/c is because it comes with a cash card and you can access the money through a cash point? I just want somewhere to put some savings which…
