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Shares Left To Me
I have been left Shares by my uncle and I don't have a clue as to what they are worth or how to sell them. What will I need to deal with these shares as they have his name on them? There are 100 shares in Rolls Royce Holdings from 1973; 82 shares in ICI Limited from 1976; BICC Limited is another with 15 shares from 1981…
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ING Cheating customers again (merged)
Just received notification that despite the recent .25% increase in the Bank of England interest rate, ING have decided not to pass a single jot of this on to their savers. What a con claiming to be a consistently reliable savings institution. Hope all their savers will vote with their feet and move their money elsewhere.
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Child Trust Fund!
Hey all, have a quick question. I have the £250 Voucher to start the account and around another £500 cash to get things going. Before i start searching around i just though some of you might have a good idea of who would be best to open an account with. Any ideas would be great. Thanks Gavin
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Nationwide ballot
Does anyone have access to the precise breakdown of the failed demutualisation ballot result - on 23 July 1998 - by Nationwide? Googling this has revealed this extract (originally in the Telegraph, some time later): http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/bank/nationwide-building-society/337964/ ...a bit more googling has turned up that…
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Birmingham Midshires
I had a 5yr guaranteed income bond with Birmingham Midshire, this became due 2nd November 2006. It is B'Ham Midshires policy to transfer the funds into a low interest account until they receive insutructions from the client, as I wanted to close this account tried to inform them beforehand but was told I could only apply…
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Where to save £££'s short term?
Following my being gazumped a few weeks ago, and having to move into rented accommodation this weekend. I will next week have the equity in our house, a six figure sum of money to invest / save. Where would be the best place ? Criteria - Monthly interest, which I will use towards the rent. Easy access, with no penalties…
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Egg and AK Bank increase rates
Egg and AK Bank have both passed on the full 0.25% BoE rate on their savings accounts: Egg to 5.0% AER and AK Bank to 5.2% AER. Apologies if posted already. I haven't seen it. Clariman
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Nationwide Rate Change Alert
Nationwide is currently inviting members with maturing bonds ( e.g. Christmas Bonds from 3, 2, and 1 year ago ) to reinvest the money in bonds. The bonds offered are not at the cutting edge as bonds go vis a vis the interest rates. However from 1st of December 2006 Nationwide Interest Rates will change. Meanwhile I will…
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Whats best to do with around £30-40K
Friend of mine is about to come into some money and is wondering whats best to do with it. Ideally need to be pretty easy access if money was needed and they seemed to like the idea of montly interest. I have always just used Nationwide e-saving myself but then thats just because its been handy and I dont know the first…
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ICICI Online HISAVE account - Login problems
Having for many months used our ICICI Bank HISAVE online accounts without any problems, yesterday my wife and I each found that all Login attempts were blocked. A phone call to ICICI Bank revealed: 1. Login user IDs have been changed (shortened) without first notifying customers. (A revised Login user ID was given over the…
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ICICI and ICESAVE - Worth moving from Egg for?
Been a Egg savings account holder for a while. Have circa 25k sitting in there, 5k in premium bonds and 3k in an ISA. I decided to do something about it, at the end of the december draw, sell my bonds as they seem to be a waste of capital really. Had the full 30k and went two months without a penny. So, is it worth, for…
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New Current Account.
Hi, Not sure if i'm in the right forum and appologise if i am not but i cant seem to see Martins best accounts to start with. i need to open a new current account after talking to payplan but dont know what the best would be? only very basic, card, paying in book etc. but NOT with Barclays or HSBC. thank you very much,…
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Selling Standard Life shares
Currently wanting to offload my de-mutualisation shares and have opened an account with Hoodless Brennan as suggested by many on here. However investigation reveals that the shares are being held by another broker (immediately following their issue in my name) called Computershare. The charge if the existing holders sell…
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£20,000 To Invest
hi, wonder if anyone could give me some adveci what to do with £20,000 i have in my current account after remortgaging for an extension. it will take around a year before i need to pay out all the cash i think, but not sure where to put it till then. i just opened a mini-ISA with NS&I so that takes care of £3000, what…
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With profit bond "performance"
This is Money A useful article comparing how these have done over the last five years. Naming the bond villains "....... nearly half the 39 companies paid investors 3% a year or less over the last five years. That's less than the 3.1% you could have earned in an average risk-free savings account. When set against stock…
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Coventry E-Bond
Was about to open the Coventry E-Bond paying 5.8% last week but I was too busy. Went to open the account today and its been closed. Anyone know if its coming back, or any bonds paying 5.7% or above at the moment?
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What to do with £100K?
Hi, As problems go, this is a "nice" one. I have just come into £100,000 and can't make up my mind which direction to go with it. I currently have a mortgage of £70K and I'm tempted to pay it all off and invest the remiander.....(somewhere?). Alternatively, as I'm comfortable with my mortgage repayments, I could invest the…
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Best Offshore Savings Account (Gross)
What are currently the best offshore sterling savings accounts? I'm interested in taking the interest monthly.
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Withdrawing money from accounts
Wonder if someone could help, I went to take £1300 out of my Nationwide account but they wouldnt give me it as I hadn't order it as such, waffled something about changes in law due to money laundering. Is this the case or just a building society thing as I have taken a larger sum out before from a Lloyds TSB account with…
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Barclays ... This will make you smile...
Hi All Thought I'd share this with you all ... I had a query with a direct debit today so called Barclays to sort it, which they did, but whilst on I was told by the CSR that I'd been a loyal member since '84, kept in credit etc.... and they would like to offer me an exclusive savings account which is not available to…
