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What to do with this money?
Hi all, I'd really appreciate some advice please. I have a cheque here for £15,000 inheritence, and i am due to get another £20-£25,000 after the house sale. Once i have paid off debts i will have about £10,000 to keep until we want to buy a house early next year. I dont know where to put it. I guess £3,000 in my ISA (not…
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What's the best account?
Hi I want to save about £150 a month can you help me with the best account Thanks
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Halifax - appointments after death!
My father died a few weeks ago and (Mum being 86) I took on the job of getting Probate and restructuring her finances. Most of their cash assets are tied up in ISAs. Everything’s gone reasonably well thus far – apart from the irritatingly slow bits of Insce companies demanding to see Probate before they will pay out on…
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help with savings question
Can someone help me on an Isa question? When is the interest on an Isa account paid? Is it at the end of each month (on whatever you've saved until then) or at the end of the financial year (on the full £3000) I currently have a Halifax regular saver (7%) which ends in June07 with £3000 + £80 interest. I wish to save the…
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10% -15% per annum fixed term savings
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Want to save £100 each month :- Best return?
I know its not a big amount of money some people talk about saving away but i would like to start sticking £100 a month into some sort of saving. What would be the best thing to do? Are premium bonds any good?
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Merrill Lynch UK Absolute Alpha
Hi, I came across this fund sometime ago and I was quite interested by the concept, so I bought some through my broker HL but it has been 10 days and my order hasn't been executed yet! The last valuation on this fund is of march 16th! and even this one came many days late. aren't they required to publish a valuataion every…
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Best investments for 50k
Would like to know where to invest 50k with no risk but guarentee a profit, do you have any comments regarding the post office accounts at 5.5% is their much better or easier ways please.
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marks and spencers share. their FYE. tax question
Hi All I have around 68k's worth of M&S share and need to cash them in fairly soon to help buy a house. Sorry for being a bit thick here, but need some advice please. Their FYE is coming up and I'm wondering if I could cash in half now and half after their FYE to avoid paying so much tax on the profit I've made. Tax; am i…
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If you had £1,000,000?
If you had £1,000,000 how would you invest it to get the most out of it? (Purely hypothetical situation! Just curious to see what others would do!) J
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YBS internet saver annual interest paid 25/03/07
YBS are paying their interest on all their annual paying accounts yesterday 25/03/07. Internet saver and e-ISA for me.:j
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Bad Financial Advice - Seeking Compensation
Can anyone please help? My girlfriend lost her mother just over 3 years ago. She was 18 at the time and inherited £25k from the sale of her mothers house (single parent). She was half way through first year at University in Scotland and was therefore very stressed with having to move all her stuff into storage, the loss of…
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Converting 7k Euros in Cash to £´s
I´ve got around 7k in Euros (in cash) that I want to convert to £´s. Apparently the Nationwide will not accept foreign currency in cash to convert to £´s and all they could suggest was taking it to the Post Office. I´m not keen to do this as I know the rates are the tourist rates and not all that favourable. Can anyone…
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Uni assignment? Need to select a company?
Hi all. I've a uni assignment where I have to select a company(FTSE100 during 2006) and to statistally analyse the effect on share price for two events( During 2006). These events hopefully have to be significant and hopefully reduce the share price. I have basically no knowledge of the FTSE 100 for the year 2006 (These…
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Halifax Guaranteed saver account
I currently have a Barclays Current Account with a e-savings 4.7% interest paid quarterly. Having been with Barclays all my life (past 8 years) I know I can do better and am not overly kean on Barclays as a bank for sales and other reasons. I can't for the life of me find details on penalities if any for withdrawing from…
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£2000 to invest - but where?
Hi there, I have no knowledge in investing however I am looking to invest £2000 which I won't need to touch in the short term. What type of investement is best in this case? A few other q's: 1) Is it better to put more than this? 2) Is there a risk that I may lose all the £2000? 3) What other similar schemes are useful? 4)…
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Fixed Rate Bond
Quick questions: When putting down the initial deposit for a fixed term fixed rate bond (say for 1 year), can I add to the deposit at any time during that year before it matures or are bonds strictly restricted to the initial deposit amount? Any answers?
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Investing in shares - courses to follow
Not sure where to put this, but here seemed the best. In short, I have been doing a little bit of dabbling in shares for the past few months, and have managed to make a small return (About 5% since last december, after fees). The way I have done this, is just go through the papers, and see which shares are being tipped,…
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GOLD investing
Hi. Anyone done any research or have any experience in investing in GOLD? Keep hearing the benefits of it as a long term investment. ISA limits sorted and don't have the interest in playing the stockmarket, so GOLD looks interesting. I've only just begun to do some research and so far been looking into this company based…
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Savings account
Hi My sister has asked me to help her to choose a savings account for £16,000 that she has inherited. She needs instant access and she wants to put the interest she earns into a current account. She is 69 years old and I wondered if the nationwide account for over 60's would be OK for her and then their flexiaccount as her…
