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£15.4 billion to invest! help!
This is a misuse of the principle of MSE forums. The forums should be used for a genuine exchange of ideas to help people who need financial help and/or advice. Oh, OK then.....put it on a horse.
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Scottish Widows Flexible Option Bond
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Hoodless Brennan Buy & Sell Pricing???
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Northern Rock profits warning
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Where to invest £500,000?
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Hight interst account for charities
I am the chairman of a board running a local pre-school and we have been told by the local education advisor to move some of our cash into a high interest account as a contingency fund should the pre-school close down. Ideally we would look to move £10,000 into the account and we may be willing to accept the money is…
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Norwich Union Portfolio Step-down: any good for income for a 63-yr-old?
I'd be interested to hear MSEs' thoughts on a proposal from an IFA, and I'd be especially glad to hear from this board's resident IFAs. I'll explain the context briefly. My mother and I have seen several IFAs and not had a great deal of confidence in any of them (I've previously posted about this and received useful…
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Alliance & Leicester to withdraw 12% regular saver
Alliance & Leicester have today announced that they will be withdrawing their Premier Regular Saver account paying 12% interest on 1st July 2007. The account is available to new Premier current account customers*. If you are planning on opening this regular saver then you had better hurry. *As well as customers who have…
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What to do with £10 000
I have £10 000 to invest and was thinking about an Isa but was unsure if I could open the account with the full amount? Does anyone have any suggestions of the best place for the cash. I don't want anything containing high risks. Thanks
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Abbey RS Issue 6 increase to 7.25%
According to Moneyfacts Abbey Issue 6 has increased to 7.25% but Abbey's own website still shows 7% http://www.moneyfacts.co.uk/searches/savingdetails.aspx?moneyfactsid=SAVINGS001159401OnMaturity
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£100 incentive for Halifax/RBS has ended!
The £100 incentive to join Halifax/Royal Bank of Scotland and get their 6.17% is no longer valid. I joined them in May and after applying on the site and filling in all my details, they told me they’d finished the offer L. Obviously I then wished I hadn’t applied as it was a hit on my credit rating, but of course it was…
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New 6.53% fixed term account Bank of Cyprus
1 YEAR BANK OF CYPRUS UK BOND Issue 9 withdrawn and Issue 10 launched paying an increased rate w.e.f. 25.6.07: a one year fixed term account with a minimum investment of £1 paying 6.53% on maturity. http://www.bankofcyprus.co.uk/main.asp?id=6861
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What to do with £10k??
I've just inherited £7k and want to know what to do with it. I would have used it to pay off part of my mortgage, but can't make overpayments until the end of my fixed rate term, in two years time. So I'm looking to put the cash somewhere for two years, make as much interest as I can (although I'm only looking at low to…
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UK bank or Spanish ?????????
Some advise please Completion date on our house within the next month We will be moving to Spain so advise on our finances please No mortgage on UK house to pay of House in Spain paid of once UK completes We will have in the bank after all costs ect = One hundred and sixty thousand pounds We intend to use the sixty…
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Smile rates
Received from smile - *We have a regulatory obligation to inform you, as a smile customer, of any changes relating to your account(s) with smile. smile interest rate changes As from the start of business on Friday 8th June 2007, rates on the following accounts with smile were increased: - cash mini ISA - increased to 5.25%…
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What to do with £40,000?
Hello I have been lucky enough to come into £40,000 and wonder if someone has some good advice as to what to do with it? My first instinct is to pay off some of the mortgage, but there must be a better way to use the money? Any help and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks. Steve
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Somebody finally woke up and smelt the coffee!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6244024.stm durrr, have they only just realised that! :rolleyes:
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Some saving accounts advice/help please.
Hello, I'm 20 and would like to start saving up some money from my monthly wages. I have a Nationwide Flexaccount as my current account and I have a HSBC student account which I only use for emergency overdraft lol :D Since starting a new job I'm earning a lot more than I was a few months ago and I want to put some away as…
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Keep endownments or move to savings plan
I currently have a number of endownments which I was planning on keeping as come 2010 I will get 4 payments a year totalling around £7000. I am paying in around £400 per month at the moment. The question is would this money be better placed elsewhere as at present the endownments are only getting bonuses of around £5 per…
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Online Saver Account
http://www.askbm.co.uk/savings/i/deposit/onlinesaver/intro.asp Any thoughts, good, bad, the queen????? Serious savers are rewarded with a serious rate of 5.89% gross, 6.05% AER for not making a withdrawal. And online access lets you manage your account 24/7. Benefits:* Invest from as little as £1 up to £250,000. * Access…
