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Advice on invest house equity short term please
Advice please. Sell house (only me in it), give up low paid job, invest equity to fund going abroad for 3 months, come back, buy downsize property, get another job. Have no other money than equity. Would this work, I need a break badly and want to move anyway. If so where should I invest equity and is it taxable. No…
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B'ham MidshiresEasy Access Woes
I opened an account a few weeks ago and now find two things I don't like about them. 1) It is not possible to send secure emails (I already reported this) 2) If you want to send money on line but not via the linked account they give details in their little booklet of an account you can send it to but don't bother to…
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alliance a leicester 12%
hi guys a girls i know i have topay in 5oo pounds a month, but can i use the 250 overdraft facility to fund the 12% saver?
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How much do I need to live on?
How much do I need in investments and savings to retire at age 50? By that I mean living off interest and some capital each year. Bearing in mind also that I would have to wait 15 years for the state pension. I have no mortgage. Example If I had £100,000 that could generate £5,000 @ 5% and I think I could live on that if…
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Share woes: lost share certificate
I've mislaid my share certificate* for a company that's recently been bought out. I don't want to sign an indemnity form and get charged for the missing certificate. I'm waiting for the company, "...to acquire compulsorily the remaining shares". They haven't done this yet, instead I've just received a document telling me I…
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NatWest Bank - Gone Downhill!
After 33 years of being with this Bank, this IS the first time Ive had reason to condemn them in any shape or form! My Wife and I on Wednesday visited a local branch to discuss a telephone savings account, as today we sold our house! So we needed an account in preparation. I asked on Wednesday for a joint account, the…
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Alliance A Leicester 12% Regular Saver
Just Asked About Opening One Of These, The Lady Said Be Quick Its Ending Very Soon, Just Thought I Let U Know Guys A Girls.
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Alliance & Leicester 5.64% con or no con ?
:mad: I've just been in to A&L to take up the fantastic 5.64AER rate and the information MSE gives on 'tips' is wrong, or so says the local branch and H/O when they checked. They have shown me the terms and conditions and it clearly states that you loose a whole months interest on the money invested. They assured me that…
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birmingham midshires
hi ya just opened birmingham midshires internet access issue 6 do i recieve intrest on the annivesary on my account opening. thanks in advance.
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Birmingham Midshires 18 Month trigger guaranteed equity bond
Had a leaflet on this investment today. It's on the BM ite at askbm.co.uk. Is this a good investment?
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I think we knew that
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6175703.stm
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Question about Peterborough Building Soc account
hello there My husband has found an old account book from the Peterborough Building Society. The last transaction was in 1987, when he withdrew most of the money leaving £4.01 - then forgot all about the account. He phoned the Norwich and Peterboro BS three weeks ago to find out how to get this money and the interest…
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online saver advice please
i'm planning to open a online saver account with Hsbc simply bcos i got a current account with them. Could any one tell me if there are any hidden facts in the HSBC online saver, Thanks very much for the help in this regard. Balaji
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Savings...advice
looking for some advice for my brother on savings account, savings will start from february 2007 until july 2012, he has worked out...... 2007 he will save £1500 2008 he will save £3490 2009 he will save £3510 2010 he will save £2774.04 2011 he will save £5840 total £17114.04 which he will pay off his debt of £15480.52…
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ICICI account opening woes
Just needed to vent... I took heed of the info about interest rates and tried to open an account with ICICI at the end of November. I filled in the webpage, then followed the instructions about ID verification. (Quite difficult to find someone to do the biz, but I did.) Then I eventually get an email from them saying that…
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Lump sum
We have a large amount of money to invest and would like to tie up the sum for about 5 years. We cannot afford to lose our capital and are low risk when it comes to investing. Can anyone suggest the best place to put our money. We have spoken to the bank and they say puttng it into a savings account is not a good idea.
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Bank & Building Soc Customer Privacy
Following the recent European Commission judgement which found SWIFT and various banks guilty of illegally passing customer information to U.S. intelligence agencies ( http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-546365 ) I was wondering just how safe our information is with banks and building socities.…
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Question about offshore bank account
Hello there, hope you can help with a small query I have.... My father recently passed away leaving my mother with various assets including an IOM offshore bank account (he worked abroad and was considered non resident for tax purposes - it was a joint account with my mother by the way). We have recently received a cheque…
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Capital One Savings T&C changes
BACS and DD payments into saving accounts now take 6 business days to clear. These funds can be withdrawn on the 7th business day, interest will still accrue from day of receipt. Personal cheques take 9 days to clear, accessible on the 10th day. These changes are applicable to all capital one savings accounts as they're…
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ING not interested in spoof website
I called and e-mailed ING direct (being a saver with them) back in April this year about a spoof website I found. I mispelled ING direct as "www.ingdircet.co.uk" in my address bar and found that a website came up containing lots of banking links, including one to ING direct. How kind I thought, thinking that someone has…
