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Savings & investments
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Last month when I received my voting papers, there was an invitation to submit my email address in order to receive news about the latest innovative offers etc. Being a bit of a tree hugger, I thought why not. It will save me opening and bining junk mail when all it will take is one click of my mouse button to do it for…
A&L directsaver workng out interest..
The interest on my a&l directsaver never seems to be as much as it should. This is the calculation i use but something must be wrong as it never ties up: balance x 5.65% (gross pa rate) - 20% (tax) / 12 (months)
13 year old son wants to open an account.
Hi, Can anyone recommend the best deals for my 13 year old son to start saving with. Thanks Sue
ING - move your interest as well as balance
Just a little point. I think lots of us moved our balances in ING's Regular savings account last month to their new Websaver account paying a much better rate of interest. If you did, go back on today, and move the interest for the part-month you will have received yesterday in the Regular Saver. Why leave last month's…
Selling House what to do?
Hi all, I am in the process of selling my house and will hopefully be getting around 90k from it. Once it is sold I will be moving into rented accomodation for around 6months (maybe slightly longer or less) as I have a relocation package which will pay for rented accomodation for this period. I am just wondering what I…
Managed Funds - downside protection
How do fund managers provide downside protection in a market correction? The managers cannot liquidate their positions even if they think we are in for say a 10% correction, so what do they do that a tracker would not do?
best online account for saving 200 quid a month ??
looking at a seperate account with interest , and able to get money out if we need it , but am looking to build it up . thanks
£500,000...where to save?
All, I'm sure this question has been asked hundreds (thousands?) of times before, but I hope you appreciate each circumstance varies so maybe you can help with this: My grandmother has just sold her house and is looking to invest the funds into a savings account. Although property would be an obvious choice, it is also the…
Where To Put 25k For Long Term
i was wondering where to put 25k for long term to get better return than building societys, looking for a low risk return. thanks
Withdraw now or wait
Hi We have around £4000 each in a cash only ISA. We need to withdraw £1000 each to cover a very large bill. Would it be better to withdraw the money now or wait till after the new tax year starts in April. Thanks
Fidelity offers ISA drawdown for regular income
Much better than an investment bond You can build it up step by step.
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