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Foreign currency savings accounts
Hi, Does anyone operate foreign currency accounts? for example:- http://www.nationwideinternational.com/accounts/accounts_dollar_details.htm "Exchange rates for the conversion of US dollars to and from sterling and other currencies will be the rate applicable at the time of the transaction. To find out the latest rates…
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£3K To invest Non-tax payer
Hi My daughter has just finished a regular saver acct at 8%. She now has set another one up but has the first £3K to invest elsewhere. Where's the best place to invest - she doesn't need the money for another year. She is a non-tax-payer. Thanks
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Regular Savers
Have been a visitor to this site for a long time..... a while back there was a lot of discussion around regular savers.....I thought it was time to revisit this topic. 1. Have there been any new Regular Saver launched.....ie Brittania 7.5%. 2. Have there been any interest rate changes or are there any pending? It would be…
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IFA deemed "not a fit and proper person" by FSA. Is it bad?
I have seeked advice from an independent financial advisor concerning buying life insurance and a pension plan. I have now discovered that this person was deemed "not a fit and proper person" in a final notice of the Financial Service Authority, in relation to a previous business she was running. How serious is this?…
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Short-term investment
Have £20,000 to invest for around 3 months - any suggestions?
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Northern Rock
Before I change from ing does anyone have anything to say about Northern Rock good or bad, 5.46 (5.3 monthly) looks good to me. gary
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Ways into China
Not an investment recommendation, but just a point of information for anyone who has already decided to get exposure to the Dragon. FT ".....buying Chinese shares directly is not a realistic option for UK-based investors. Indeed, even professional fund managers who want to invest in China have to be creative to get around…
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Premium Bond new "interest" rate
I can't see any mention on here of this yet. The "interest" rate for Premium Bonds has been increased from 3.15% to 3.55% with effect from the next draw. This is a significantly greater increase than the BoE base rate increase - thus reversing some of the recent decline in competitivity of PBs. They are now worth…
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Bradford & Bingley - Capital One Savings
Does anybody know if these two companies have anything in relation to each other?
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£55K to save
Looking to save £55k into one account, which account would you recommend? I want instant access so I'm looking at ICICI's 5.45% which looks attractive, feedback now looks good for them too. Currently with ING and time to move as they are only paying 4.75%, which i can't understand as not competitive.:confused:
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Despite my number of posts ...not on here!!
:confused: My posts have been all on the "Buying, selling houses forum" and in sheer desperation (with very little time to spare!) I now need your help on here!! :eek: We lost the house we were buying .. was withdrawn from market as we originally went to exchange .... so now we go into storage (or rather our furniture does…
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HSBC regular saver has matured. What now?!
I just received a letter telling me my regular saver will mature and it looks like as I have no other active saving accounts at HSBC my regular payment and the amount that's in it will be converted to HSBC's flexible saver. The interest rate looks a little disappointing to me. What should I do with the money? I'm not…
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Using my overdraft to invest.
Hi there I plan to open an Alliance & leicester direct account that has 0% Overdraft for a year. I then plan to take the overdraft money to save in a high interest saving account. Is this a good idea? Is it worth it? Is there anything I should watch out for?:confused: Can anyone help?
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Ipswich BS Target Saver
Hi there, This saving account offers 8.25% (AER), does anyone know anything about it. Is it worth it? Also what does AER mean? Thanks
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ING to ICESAVE; Whats the quickest way to move money?
I am about to move funds from poorly performing ING to ICESAVE, but want to minimise the number of lost interest days. Assuming each take 3 days (ie; ING to linked current acc then linked c/a to ICESAVE) and throw in 2 days for the weekend, thats a total of EIGHT days, or about £40 interest lost on my £40K. Is there a…
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theiaccount - promising 40% above FTSE and HPI over 10 years...
theiaccount is a SIPP that guarantees to outperform any stock market and house price rises, has 100% capital security and no fund management charges...a £35 fee per year, seems to be the only charge. see http://www.theiaccount.com/index.htm current Interest offer http://www.theiaccount.com/webpages/current_rates.html…
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Invesco Perpetual Hign Income (acc) & Invesco Perpetual Hign Income (inc)
Hi folks. I was looking at the two funds in the thread title, but I'm unsure as to the difference between them denoted by the (acc) & the (inc). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :)
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monthly interest
Am I losing out by having interest paid monthly instead of annually. I have account paying 5.22% monthly, but 5.35% AER. Grateful for advice. Maypole
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Best Notice Savings?
My husband and I have decided to move house in 2008. The type of house we would like are currently around the £135k mark but we envisage them being around the £150k mark when we want to move. Our house currently has equity of around £15k in it so we would like to match this to either put down a bigger deposit or to have…
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B&b 5.35%
full .25% from 3 Dec Mike
